110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1068

AN ACT

To amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991.

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
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1 SECTION 1. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH 

2 AND DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 

3 Title I of the High-Performance Computing Act of 

4 1991 (15 U.S.C. 5511 et seq.) is amended—

5 (1) in the title heading, by striking ‘‘AND 

6 THE NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDU7 CATION NETWORK’’ and inserting ‘‘RE8 SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’; 

9 (2) in section 101(a)—

10 (A) by striking subparagraphs (A) and (B) 

11 of paragraph (1) and inserting the following: 

12 ‘‘(A) provide for long-term basic and applied re13 search on high-performance computing; 

14 ‘‘(B) provide for research and development on, 

15 and demonstration of, technologies to advance the 

16 capacity and capabilities of high-performance com17 puting and networking systems; 

18 ‘‘(C) provide for sustained access by the re19 search community in the United States to high-per20 formance computing systems that are among the 

21 most advanced in the world in terms of performance 

22 in solving scientific and engineering problems, in23 cluding provision for technical support for users of 

24 such systems; 
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1 ‘‘(D) provide for efforts to increase software 

2 availability, productivity, capability, security, port3 ability, and reliability; 

4 ‘‘(E) provide for high-performance networks, in5 cluding experimental testbed networks, to enable re6 search and development on, and demonstration of, 

7 advanced applications enabled by such networks; 

8 ‘‘(F) provide for computational science and en9 gineering research on mathematical modeling and al10 gorithms for applications in all fields of science and 

11 engineering; 

12 ‘‘(G) provide for the technical support of, and 

13 research and development on, high-performance 

14 computing systems and software required to address 

15 Grand Challenges; 

16 ‘‘(H) provide for educating and training addi17 tional undergraduate and graduate students in soft18 ware engineering, computer science, computer and 

19 network security, applied mathematics, library and 

20 information science, and computational science; and 

21 ‘‘(I) provide for improving the security of com22 puting and networking systems, including Federal 

23 systems, including research required to establish se24 curity standards and practices for these systems.’’; 
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1 (B) by striking paragraph (2) and redesig2 nating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 

3 (2) and (3), respectively; 

4 (C) in paragraph (2), as so redesignated 

5 by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph—

6 (i) by striking subparagraph (B); 

7 (ii) by redesignating subparagraphs 

8 (A) and (C) as subparagraphs (D) and 

9 (F), respectively; 

10 (iii) by inserting before subparagraph 

11 (D), as so redesignated by clause (ii) of 

12 this subparagraph, the following new sub13 paragraphs: 

14 ‘‘(A) establish the goals and priorities for Fed15 eral high-performance computing research, develop16 ment, networking, and other activities; 

17 ‘‘(B) establish Program Component Areas that 

18 implement the goals established under subparagraph 

19 (A), and identify the Grand Challenges that the Pro20 gram should address; 

21 ‘‘(C) provide for interagency coordination of 

22 Federal high-performance computing research, devel23 opment, networking, and other activities undertaken 

24 pursuant to the Program;’’; and 
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1 (iv) by inserting after subparagraph 

2 (D), as so redesignated by clause (ii) of 

3 this subparagraph, the following new sub4 paragraph: 

5 ‘‘(E) develop and maintain a research, develop6 ment, and deployment roadmap for the provision of 

7 high-performance computing systems under para8 graph (1)(C); and’’; and 

9 (D) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated 

10 by subparagraph (B) of this paragraph—

11 (i) by striking ‘‘paragraph (3)(A)’’ 

12 and inserting ‘‘paragraph (2)(D)’’; 

13 (ii) by amending subparagraph (A) to 

14 read as follows: 

15 ‘‘(A) provide a detailed description of the Pro16 gram Component Areas, including a description of 

17 any changes in the definition of or activities under 

18 the Program Component Areas from the preceding 

19 report, and the reasons for such changes, and a de20 scription of Grand Challenges supported under the 

21 Program;’’; 

22 (iii) in subparagraph (C), by striking 

23 ‘‘specific activities’’ and all that follows 

24 through ‘‘the Network’’ and inserting 

25 ‘‘each Program Component Area’’; 
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1 (iv) in subparagraph (D), by inserting 

2 ‘‘and for each Program Component Area’’ 

3 after ‘‘participating in the Program’’; 

4 (v) in subparagraph (D), by striking 

5 ‘‘applies;’’ and inserting ‘‘applies; and’’; 

6 (vi) by striking subparagraph (E) and 

7 redesignating subparagraph (F) as sub8 paragraph (E); and 

9 (vii) in subparagraph (E), as so redes10 ignated by clause (vi) of this subpara11 graph, by inserting ‘‘and the extent to 

12 which the Program incorporates the rec13 ommendations of the advisory committee 

14 established under subsection (b)’’ after 

15 ‘‘for the Program’’; 

16 (3) by striking subsection (b) of section 101 

17 and inserting the following: 

18 ‘‘(b) ADVISORY COMMITTEE.—(1) The President 

19 shall establish an advisory committee on high-performance 

20 computing consisting of non-Federal members, including 

21 representatives of the research, education, and library 

22 communities, network providers, and industry, who are 

23 specially qualified to provide the Director with advice and 

24 information on high-performance computing. The rec25 ommendations of the advisory committee shall be consid-
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1 ered in reviewing and revising the Program. The advisory 

2 committee shall provide the Director with an independent 

3 assessment of—

4 ‘‘(A) progress made in implementing the Pro5 gram; 

6 ‘‘(B) the need to revise the Program; 

7 ‘‘(C) the balance between the components of the 

8 Program, including funding levels for the Program 

9 Component Areas; 

10 ‘‘(D) whether the research and development un11 dertaken pursuant to the Program is helping to 

12 maintain United States leadership in high-perform13 ance computing and networking technology; and 

14 ‘‘(E) other issues identified by the Director. 

15 ‘‘(2) In addition to the duties outlined in paragraph 

16 (1), the advisory committee shall conduct periodic evalua17 tions of the funding, management, coordination, imple18 mentation, and activities of the Program, and shall report 

19 not less frequently than once every two fiscal years to the 

20 Committee on Science of the House of Representatives 

21 and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transpor22 tation of the Senate on its findings and recommendations. 

23 The first report shall be due within one year after the date 

24 of enactment of this paragraph. 
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1 ‘‘(3) Section 14 of the Federal Advisory Committee 

2 Act shall not apply to the advisory committee established 

3 by this subsection.’’; and 

4 (4) in section 101(c)(1)(A), by striking ‘‘Pro5 gram or’’ and inserting ‘‘Program Component Areas 

6 or’’. 

7 SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 

8 Section 4 of the High-Performance Computing Act 

9 of 1991 (15 U.S.C. 5503) is amended—

10 (1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘and multi11 disciplinary teams of researchers’’ after ‘‘high-per12 formance computing resources’’; 

13 (2) in paragraph (3)—

14 (A) by striking ‘‘scientific workstations,’’; 

15 (B) by striking ‘‘(including vector super16 computers and large scale parallel systems)’’; 

17 (C) by striking ‘‘and applications’’ and in18 serting ‘‘applications’’; and 

19 (D) by inserting ‘‘, and the management of 

20 large data sets’’ after ‘‘systems software’’; 

21 (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘packet 

22 switched’’; 

23 (4) by striking ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph 

24 (5); 
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1 (5) by striking the period at the end of para2 graph (6) and inserting ‘‘; and’’; and 

3 (6) by adding at the end the following new 

4 paragraph: 

5 ‘‘(7) ‘Program Component Areas’ means the 

6 major subject areas under which are grouped related 

7 individual projects and activities carried out under 

8 the Program.’’. 

Passed the House of Representatives March 12, 

2007. 

Attest:

Clerk. 
110TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1068

AN ACT

To amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 

1991.