Resources and scientific computing policy
NFS Simulation-Based Engineering Science report released.
In May, 2006 the United States National Science Foundation released the final report of the Blue Ribbon Panel on Simulation-Based Engineering Science (SBES). The ten member panel was charged with exploring the benefits and challenges of developments in SBES and with recommending actions that would accelerate advances in this discipline. Link to the PDF on the NSF site.
PITAC Report on Computational Science
In June 2005, the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) released the report Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness that finds that computational science is one of the most important technological fields of the 21st century, because it enables investigation of extremely complicated phenomena and processes – such as nuclear fusion, folding of proteins, the atomic organization of nanoscale materials, and the global spread of disease – that other methods cannot characterize fully if at all. Link to the PDF.
SCaLeS - Science-based Case for Large-scale Simulation
U.S. Department of Energy report of July 2003. In this two-volume report, prepared with direct input from more than 300 of America's leading computational scientists, a science-based case is presented for major, new, carefully balanced investments in scientific applications, algorithm research and development, computing system software infrastructure, network infrastructure for access and resource sharing, computational facilities, innovative computer architecture research, for the facilities of the future, proactive recruitment and training of a new generation of multidisciplinary computational scientists. Link to the PDF. Website of SCaLeS.