Department of Energy FY 2012 Congressional ... - The FIRE Place

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FY 2012
Request
technologies include computer center hotline and help-desk services, account management, web-based
system documentation, system status information tools, user training, trouble-ticketing systems, and
application analyst support.
The FY 2012 activities maintain continuous and reliable operation and support of production
computing systems and all required infrastructure to operate these systems on a 24-hour a day, 7-day a
week basis, with an emphasis on providing efficient production quality stable systems. Facility
Operations operate laboratory ASC computers and support integration of new systems ensuring that
the physical plant has sufficient resources, such as space, power, and cooling, to support future
computing systems. User Support provides the authentication and authorization services used by
applications for the purposes of remote access and data movement across ASC-related locations. The
ASC Campaign will also develop and maintain a wide-area infrastructure (e.g., links and services) that
enable remote access to ASC applications, data, and computing resources, to support computational
needs at the plants permitting distant users to operate on remote computing resources as if they were
local. The subprogram will provide analysis and software environment development, support for ASC
laboratory computers and provide user services and helpdesks for ASC laboratory computers.
The request will fund investments in people and equipment to enhance system and environment
administration and operations, network capability, power and user support services. These
investments will transition the national laboratories from a high performance computing environment
in which users view peta-scale computing as a novel tool to one where running jobs on a 20-Petaflop
system is routine.
Total, Advanced Simulation and Computing
Campaign 566,069 615,748 628,945
Weapons Activities/
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget