H.R. 2495 — what changed

Section 2 of the Department of Energy High-End Computing Revitalization Act of 2004 (15 U.S.C. 5541) is amended by striking paragraphs (1) through (5) and inserting the following:

“(1) Co-design—The term co-design means the joint development of application algorithms, models, and codes with computer technology architectures and operating systems to maximize effective use of high-end computing systems.

“(2) Department—The term Department means the Department of Energy.

“(3) Exascale—The term exascale means computing system performance at or near 10 to the 18th power floating point operations per second.

“(4) High-end computing system—The term high-end computing system means a computing system with performance that substantially exceeds that of systems that are commonly available for advanced scientific and engineering applications.

“(5) Institution of higher education—The term institution of higher education has the meaning given the term in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1001(a)).

changed “(6) National laboratory—The Leadership system—The term National Laboratory “leadership system” means any one of a high-end computing system that is among the seventeen laboratories owned by most advanced in the Department.world in terms of performance in solving scientific and engineering problems.

changed “(7) Secretary—The National laboratory—The term Secretary National Laboratory means the Secretary any one of Energy.the seventeen laboratories owned by the Department.

changed “(8) Software technology—The Secretary—The term software technology includes optimal algorithms, programming environments, tools, languages, and operating systems for high-end computing systems.”Secretary means the Secretary of Energy.

added “(9) Software technology—The term software technology includes optimal algorithms, programming environments, tools, languages, and operating systems for high-end computing systems.”