From: "Clifford Lynch" <CNI-ANNOUNCE@cni.org>
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Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2015 16:16:30 -0400
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Subject: US National Strategic Computing Initiative
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Last week, the Obama administration issued an executive order 
creating a National Strategic Computing Initiative to "maximize the 
benefits of high-performance computing research, development and 
deployment". The executive order, which is not lengthy, is well worth 
reading; it both establishes a series of  objectives and defines 
roles and responsibilities among a large number of government 
agencies involved in the program.

The executive order is here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2015/07/29/executive-order-creating-national-strategic-computing-initiative

And there is also a blog post from Tom Kalil and Jason Miller 
providing additional context here:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2015/07/29/advancing-us-leadership-high-performance-computing

One point I found particularly interesting. While the "objectives" 
section of the order speaks, as one might expect, of exascale 
computing systems, it also specifically identifies as an objective 
"Increasing coherence beween the technology base used for modelling 
and simulation and that used for data analytic computing." This is a 
disconnect that has been growing increasingly evident with the rise 
of"big data" and "data analytics" in recent years.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI