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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. 733 

To amend the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization 

Act of 2004 to improve the high-end computing research and development 

program of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

APRIL 16, 2013 

Mr. ALEXANDER (for himself, Mr. DURBIN, Mr. WYDEN, Mr. HEINRICH, Ms. 

MURKOWSKI, Mr. COONS, Mr. UDALL of New Mexico, and Mr. KIRK) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources 

A BILL 

To amend the Department of Energy High-End Computing 

Revitalization Act of 2004 to improve the high-end computing research and development program of the Department of Energy, and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Exascale Computing 

5 for Science, Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, 

6 Leadership, and the Economy Act of 2013’’ or 

7 ‘‘ExaSCALE Computing Leadership Act of 2013’’. 


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1 SEC. 2. RENAMING OF ACT. 

2 (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 1 of the Department of 

3 Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 

4 (15 U.S.C. 5501 note; Public Law 108–423) is amended 

5 by striking ‘‘Department of Energy High-End Computing 

6 Revitalization Act of 2004’’ and inserting ‘‘Exascale Com7 puting for Science, Competitiveness, Advanced Manufac8 turing, Leadership, and the Economy Act of 2013’’. 

9 (b) CONFORMING AMENDMENT.—Section 976(a)(1) 

10 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 (42 U.S.C. 16316(1)) 

11 is amended by striking ‘‘Department of Energy High-End 

12 Computing Revitalization Act of 2004’’ and inserting 

13 ‘‘Exascale Computing for Science, Competitiveness, Ad14 vanced Manufacturing, Leadership, and the Economy Act 

15 of 2013’’. 

16 SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 

17 Section 2 of the Exascale Computing for Science, 

18 Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, 

19 and the Economy Act of 2013 (15 U.S.C. 5541) is amend20 ed— 

21 (1) by redesignating paragraphs (2) through 

22 (5) as paragraphs (3) through (6), respectively; 

23 (2) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the 

24 following: 

25 ‘‘(1) DEPARTMENT.—The term ‘Department’ 

26 means the Department of Energy. 


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1 ‘‘(2) EXASCALE COMPUTING.—The term 

2 ‘exascale computing’ means computing through the 

3 use of a computing machine that performs near or 

4 above 10 to the 18th power floating point operations 

5 per second.’’; and 

6 (3) in paragraph (6) (as redesignated by para7 graph (1)), by striking ‘‘, acting through the Direc8 tor of the Office of Science of the Department of 

9 Energy’’. 

10 SEC. 4. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY HIGH-END COMPUTING 

11 RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 

12 Section 3 of the Exascale Computing for Science, 

13 Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, 

14 and the Economy Act of 2013 (15 U.S.C. 5542) is amend15 ed— 

16 (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ‘‘program’’ 

17 and inserting ‘‘coordinated program across the De18 partment’’; 

19 (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘, which 

20 may’’ and all that follows through ‘‘architectures’’; 

21 and 

22 (3) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the 

23 following: 

24 ‘‘(d) EXASCALE COMPUTING PROGRAM.— 


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1 ‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall con2 duct a research program (referred to in this sub3 section as the ‘program’) to develop 2 or more 

4 exascale computing machines to promote the mis5 sions of the Department. 

6 ‘‘(2) PARTNERSHIPS.—In carrying out the pro7 gram, the Secretary shall establish 2 or more na8 tional laboratory-industry partnerships for the re9 search and development of 2 or more exascale com10 puting machines across all applicable agencies of the 

11 Department. 

12 ‘‘(3) CODESIGN AND APPLICATION DEVELOP13 MENT.—The Secretary shall carry out the program 

14 through an integration of application, computer 

15 science, and computer hardware architecture using 

16 public-private partnerships to ensure that, to the 

17 maximum extent practicable, 2 or more exascale 

18 computing machines are capable of solving Depart19 ment target applications and scientific problems. 

20 ‘‘(4) PROJECT REVIEW.—The exascale com21 puting machines described in paragraph (2) shall be 

22 reviewed through a project review process. 

23 ‘‘(5) ANNUAL REPORTS.—At the time of the 

24 budget submission of the Department for each fiscal 

25 year, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a reVerDate Mar 15 2010 04:32 Apr 20, 2013 Jkt 029200 PO 00000 Frm 00004 Fmt 6652 Sfmt 6201 E:\BILLS\S733.IS S733

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1 port that describes funding for the exascale com2 puting program as a whole by functional element of 

3 the Department and critical milestones. 

4 ‘‘(6) FUNDING.—The Secretary shall use exist5 ing funds to carry out the program.’’. 

6 SEC. 5. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS. 

7 Section 4 of the Exascale Computing for Science, 

8 Competitiveness, Advanced Manufacturing, Leadership, 

9 and the Economy Act of 2013 (15 U.S.C. 5543) is amend10 ed— 

11 (1) by striking ‘‘this Act’’ and inserting ‘‘sec12 tion 3(d)’’; and 

13 (2) by striking paragraphs (1) through (3) and 

14 inserting the following: 

15 ‘‘(1) $160,000,000 for fiscal year 2014; 

16 ‘‘(2) $200,000,000 for fiscal year 2015; and 

17 ‘‘(3) $220,000,000 for fiscal year 2016.’’. 

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