The Secretary shall-
The program shall-
As part of the program carried out under this subchapter, the Secretary shall establish and operate 1 or more Leadership Systems facilities to-
In carrying out this subsection, the Secretary shall provide to Leadership Systems, on a competitive, merit-reviewed basis, access to researchers in United States industry, institutions of higher education, national laboratories, and other Federal agencies.
The Secretary shall conduct a research program (referred to in this subsection as the "Program") for exascale computing, including the development of two or more exascale computing machine architectures, to promote the missions of the Department.
In carrying out the Program, the Secretary shall-
The Secretary shall select the partnerships with the computing facilities of the Department under subparagraph (A) through a competitive, peer-review process.
The Secretary shall-
The Secretary shall submit to Congress a report describing-
The exascale architectures developed pursuant to partnerships established pursuant to paragraph (2) shall be reviewed through a project review process.
Not later than 90 days after September 28, 2018, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on-
At the time of the budget submission of the Department for each fiscal year, the Secretary, in consultation with the members of the partnerships established pursuant to paragraph (2), shall submit to Congress a report that describes funding for the Program as a whole by functional element of the Department and critical milestones.
15 U.S.C. § 5542
EDITORIAL NOTES
REFERENCES IN TEXTThis subchapter, referred to in subsec. (c)(1), was in the original "this Act", meaning Pub. L. 108-423, 118 Stat. 2400, which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 5501 of this title and Tables.
CODIFICATIONThis section was enacted as part of the American Super Computing Leadership Act of 2017 which comprises this subchapter, and not as part of the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991 which comprises this chapter.
AMENDMENTS2018-Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 115-246, §304(b)(3)(A), formerly §304(a)(3)(A), as renumbered by Pub. L. 117-167 substituted "coordinated program across the Department" for "program". Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 115-246, §304(b)(3)(B), formerly §304(a)(3)(B), as renumbered by Pub. L. 117-167 struck out ",which may include vector, reconfigurable logic, streaming, processor-in-memory, and multithreading architectures" before semicolon at end. Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 115-246, §304(b)(3)(C), formerly §304(a)(3)(C), as renumbered by Pub. L. 117-167 added subsec. (d) and struck out former subsec. (d) which related to the establishment of a High-End Software Development Center.
- Program
- "Program" means the Networking and Information Technology Research and Development Program described in section 5511 of this title; and
- high-end computing
- "high-end computing" means the most advanced and capable computing systems, including their hardware, storage, networking and software, encompassing both massive computational capability and large-scale data analytics to solve computational problems of national importance that are beyond the capability of small- to medium-scale systems, including computing formerly known as high-performance computing;
- Administration
- the terms "Administration" and "Administrator" mean the Small Business Administration and the Administrator thereof, respectively; and