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Union Calendar No. 17
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. R. 28
[Report No. 109–36] 
To amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
JANUARY 4, 2005
Mrs. BIGGERT (for herself, Mr. DAVIS of Tennessee, and Mr. BOEHLERT) 
introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Science 
APRIL 12, 2005
Additional sponsors: Mr. GORDON, Mr. INGLIS of South Carolina, Ms. 
HOOLEY, and Mr. JOHNSON of Illinois 
APRIL 12, 2005
Reported with an amendment, committed to the Committee of the Whole 
House on the State of the Union, and ordered to be printed 
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic] 
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on January 4, 2005] 
A BILL 
To amend the High-Performance Computing Act of 1991.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘High-Performance Com-
puting Revitalization Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Section 2 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 
1991 (15 U.S.C. 5501) is amended by adding at the end 
the following new paragraph: 
‘‘(10) Commercial application of the results of 
Federal investment in basic and computing science is 
consistent with longstanding United States technology 
transfer policy and is a critical national priority, 
particularly with regard to cybersecurity and other 
homeland security applications, because of the urgent 
needs of commercial, academic, and individual users 
as well as the Federal and State Governments.’’. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
Section 4 of the High-Performance Computing Act of 
1991 (15 U.S.C. 5503) is amended—
(1) in paragraph (2), by inserting ‘‘and multi-
disciplinary teams of researchers’’ after ‘‘high-per-
formance computing resources’’; 
(2) in paragraph (3)—
(A) by striking ‘‘scientific workstations,’’; 
(B) by striking ‘‘(including vector super-
computers and large scale parallel systems)’’;
(C) by striking ‘‘and applications’’ and in-
serting ‘‘applications’’; and 
(D) by inserting ‘‘, and the management of 
large data sets’’ after ‘‘systems software’’; 
(3) in paragraph (4), by striking ‘‘packet 
switched’’; and 
(4) by amending paragraphs (5) and (6) to read 
as follows: 
‘‘(5) ‘Program’ means the High-Performance 
Computing Research and Development Program de-
scribed in section 101; and 
‘‘(6) ‘Program Component Areas’ means the 
major subject areas under which are grouped related 
individual projects and activities carried out under 
the Program.’’. 
SEC. 4. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH AND 
DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM. 
Title I of the High-Performance Computing Act of 
1991 (15 U.S.C. 5511 et seq.) is amended—
(1) in the title heading, by striking ‘‘AND 
THE NATIONAL RESEARCH AND EDU-
CATION NETWORK’’ and inserting ‘‘RE-
SEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’; 
(2) in section 101—
(A) the section heading, by striking ‘‘NA-
TIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING’’ 
and inserting ‘‘HIGH-PERFORMANCE
COM-
PUTING RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT’’; 
(B) in subsection (a)—
(i) in the subsection heading, by strik-
ing ‘‘NATIONAL HIGH-PERFORMANCE COM-
PUTING’’ and inserting ‘‘HIGH-PERFORM-
ANCE COMPUTING RESEARCH AND DEVEL-
OPMENT’’; 
(ii) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) 
and inserting the following: ‘‘(1) The Presi-
dent shall implement a High-Performance 
Computing Research and Development Pro-
gram, which shall—
‘‘(A) provide for long-term basic and applied re-
search on high-performance computing; 
‘‘(B) provide for research and development on, 
and demonstration of, technologies to advance the ca-
pacity and capabilities of high-performance com-
puting and networking systems; 
‘‘(C) provide for sustained access by the research 
community in the United States to high-performance 
computing systems that are among the most advanced 
in the world in terms of performance in solving sci-