HR 874 · 114th Congress · Energy

American Super Computing Leadership Act

Introduced 2015-02-11· Sponsored by Rep. Hultgren, Randy [R-IL-14]· House

Bill Progress

Introduced
Committee
House Vote
4
Senate
5
Enacted
Latest: Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources.(2015-05-20)

Plain Language Summary

[AI summary unavailable — showing source text] American Super Computing Leadership Act Amends the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 with respect to: (1) exascale computing (computing system performance at or near 10 to the 18th power floating point operations per second), and (2) a high-end computing system with performance substantially exceeding that of systems commonly available for advanced scientific and engineering applications. Directs the Secretary of Energy (DOE) to: (1) coordinate the development of high-end computing systems across DOE; (2) partner with universities, National Laboratories, and industry to ensure the broadest possible application of the technology developed in the program to other challenges in science, engineering, medicine, and industry; and (3) include among the multiple architectures researched, at DOE discretion, any computer technologies that show promise of substantial reductions in power requirements and substantial gains in parallelism of multicore processors, concurrency, memory and storage, bandwidth, and reliability. Repeals authority for establishment of at least one High-End Software Development Center. Directs the Secretary to conduct a coordinated resea…

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H.R. 874, American Super Computing Leadership Act

Mar 27, 2015

As ordered reported by the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology on March 4, 2015

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Cosponsors (9)

7 Democrats2 Republicans