The HPCC Program is implemented as a partnership among Federal agencies, with strong involvement by U.S. academia and industry. Program oversight and budgetary review are provided by the CCIC and its CIC R&D Subcommittee. The National Coordination Office for Computing, Information, and Communication (NCO) provides a central focus for interagency R&D activities and coordinates the activities of the HPCC agencies. The NCO also provides an interface to Congress, academia, industry, and the public. John C. Toole, NCO Director and Chair of the CIC R&D Subcommittee, reports jointly to the Director of Office of Science and Technology Policy and the President's Science Advisor, Dr. John H. Gibbons, and to the Chair of the CCIC, Dr. Anita K. Jones.
The CIC R&D Subcommittee meets quarterly to coordinate agency HPCC Programs through information exchanges, common development of interagency programs, and the review of individual agency plans and budgets. The CIC R&D Subcommittee charters a Working Group for each PCA to coordinate activities in specific areas. Currently active groups include:
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The High End Computing and Computation Working Group, has evolved from
the Scientific and Engineering Working Group, and coordinates the
development of systems software, software tools, and Grand Challenge
applications software. Grand Challenges are computation-intensive
fundamental problems in science and engineering with broad economic
and scientific impact, in areas such as weather, climate, the
environment, manufacturing design, biomedicine, and basic scientific
research. This Group is developing agendas for high performance system
software technology R&D and for high performance computing systems
research.
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The Human centered Systems Working Group has evolved from the
Information Infrastructure Technologies and Applications Working
Group and is developing an agenda for R&D in human-centered
information systems and in distributed collaborative computing.
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Three other Working Groups have been formed, each also associated with a PCA-Large Scale Networking; High Confidence Systems; and Education, Training, and Human Resources. |
The Federal Networking Council (FNC) and the Applications Council also report to the CCIC. The FNC is a forum for networking collaboration among Federal organizations operating advanced computer communications networks to meet their research, education, and operational mission goals. The FNC bridges the gap between the advanced networking technologies being developed by R&D activities and the ultimate acquisition of mature versions of those technologies from the commercial sector.
The CCIC Applications Council charter is to: (1) provide a forum for exchanging information between information and communications R&D communities and applications communities that need advanced information and communications technologies, (2) identify information and communications R&D needed for information technology applications, (3) assess critical information and communications technologies needed by applications (for example, security technologies), and (4) facilitate wider R&D collaborations on information and communications applications.
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