The ADTSC vision/mission is as follows:
Computer, Computational, and Statistical Sciences (CCS) Division is an international leader in solving challenging problems through: 1) basic and applied research in areas of computer science, computational science, applied mathematics, and statistics; 2) the deployment and integration of computational technology, simulations, simulation technology, and information extraction methodologies; and 3) achieving excellence in the development of techniques for collecting, analyzing, combining, and making high-quality inferences from diverse qualitative and quantitative information sets.
Theoretical (T) Division teams widely around the Laboratory and the world to attract and retain the best talent and capabilities to nurture technical foundations and deliver capability to both current and future national security needs. The enduring success (since 1943!) of the division derives from the co-location of theory, modeling, and simulation excellence for a very wide spectrum of disciplines (biology to materials to cosmology). This infrastructure permits rapid deployment of multidisciplinary approaches to complex technical challenges.
High-Performance Computing (HPC) Division provides world-class capabilities of: high-performance computing systems (systems integration, production systems, file systems, and future systems); software (tools, engineering, software quality assurance); visualization; and HPC facilities. HPC provides 135 teraflop/s of secure computing resource. In addition, the world’s first sustained petaflop/s system will be installed in 2008.
The Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS) organizes research related to nonlinear and complex systems phenomena. The Center’s mission is to 1) identify and study complex nonlinear phenomena using a diverse set of research approaches and methodologies, 2) promote the use of scientific results in applied research, 3) stimulate the formation of interdisciplinary approaches to complex problems, 4) facilitate the interchange of scientific results and ideas between LANL and external centers of excellence, 5) encourage the exploration of new scientific frontiers at the interface between conventional disciplines, and 6) support a broad spectrum of interdisciplinary science that underpins national security.
The Advanced Computing Solutions Program Office (ACS-PO) focus is to enable LANL to become nationally recognized as the capability leader in information security and networking science that predicts and solves critical problems in the cyber domain using novel yet practical solutions. Information security and networking science is intended to be a growth element of the Laboratory with diverse customers leveraging excellence in the Laboratory’s own cyber security.