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‘‘(3) partner with universities, National Labora-
tories, and industry to ensure the broadest possible 
application of the technology developed in this pro-
gram to other challenges in science, engineering, 
medicine, and industry.’’; 
(2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ‘‘vector’’ 
and all that follows through ‘‘architectures’’ and in-
serting ‘‘computer technologies that show promise of 
substantial reductions in power requirements and 
substantial gains in parallelism of multicore proc-
essors, concurrency, memory and storage, band-
width, and reliability’’; and 
(3) by striking subsection (d) and inserting the 
following: 
‘‘(d) EXASCALE COMPUTING PROGRAM.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary shall con-
duct a coordinated research program to develop 
exascale computing systems to advance the missions 
of the Department. 
‘‘(2) 
EXECUTION.—The 
Secretary 
shall, 
through competitive merit review, establish two or 
more National Laboratory-industry-university part-
nerships to conduct integrated research, develop-
ment, and engineering of multiple exascale architec-
tures, and— 
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‘‘(A) conduct mission-related co-design ac-
tivities in developing such exascale platforms; 
‘‘(B) develop those advancements in hard-
ware and software technology required to fully 
realize the potential of an exascale production 
system in addressing Department target appli-
cations and solving scientific problems involving 
predictive modeling and simulation and large- 
scale data analytics and management; and 
‘‘(C) explore the use of exascale computing 
technologies to advance a broad range of 
science and engineering. 
‘‘(3) ADMINISTRATION.—In carrying out this 
program, the Secretary shall— 
‘‘(A) provide, on a competitive, merit-re-
viewed basis, access for researchers in United 
States industry, institutions of higher edu-
cation, National Laboratories, and other Fed-
eral agencies to these exascale systems, as ap-
propriate; and 
‘‘(B) conduct outreach programs to in-
crease the readiness for the use of such plat-
forms by domestic industries, including manu-
facturers. 
‘‘(4) REPORTS.— 
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‘‘(A) INTEGRATED
STRATEGY
AND
PRO-
GRAM
MANAGEMENT
PLAN.—The Secretary 
shall submit to Congress, not later than 90 
days after the date of enactment of the Depart-
ment of Energy Office of Science Authorization 
Act of 2015, a report outlining an integrated 
strategy and program management plan, in-
cluding target dates for prototypical and pro-
duction exascale platforms, interim milestones 
to reaching these targets, functional require-
ments, roles and responsibilities of National 
Laboratories and industry, acquisition strategy, 
and estimated resources required, to achieve 
this exascale system capability. The report shall 
include the Secretary’s plan for Departmental 
organization to manage and execute the 
Exascale Computing Program, including defini-
tion of the roles and responsibilities within the 
Department to ensure an integrated program 
across the Department. The report shall also 
include a plan for ensuring balance and 
prioritizing across ASCR subprograms in a flat 
or slow-growth budget environment. 
‘‘(B) STATUS REPORTS.—At the time of 
the budget submission of the Department for 
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each fiscal year, the Secretary shall submit a 
report to Congress that describes the status of 
milestones and costs in achieving the objectives 
of the exascale computing program. 
‘‘(C) EXASCALE MERIT REPORT.—At least 
18 months prior to the initiation of construction 
or installation of any exascale-class computing 
facility, the Secretary shall transmit a plan to 
the Congress detailing— 
‘‘(i) the proposed facility’s cost projec-
tions and capabilities to significantly accel-
erate the development of new energy tech-
nologies; 
‘‘(ii) technical risks and challenges 
that must be overcome to achieve success-
ful completion and operation of the facility; 
and 
‘‘(iii) an independent assessment of 
the scientific and technological advances 
expected from such a facility relative to 
those expected from a comparable invest-
ment in expanded research and applica-
tions at terascale-class and petascale-class 
computing facilities, including an evalua-
tion of where investments should be made 
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