DOE2000 ushers in a new era of scientific collaboration that transcends geographic, discipline, and organizational boundaries.
Improved ability to solve DOE's complex scientific
problems.
The scientific and technical problems faced by DOE now involve multiple complex subproblems in several disciplines. For example, tracking radioactive waste plumes in ground water requires contributions from fluid dynamics, chemistry, geology, and computational science. This has two implications. First, it is necessary to bring together scientists and engineers from multiple disciplines and organization to collaborate in seeking solutions. Second, the nature of many problems precludes traditional experimentation because of the minute or enormous scales in time or space, because of the dangers to participants, or sheer infeasibility.
Increased R&D productivity and efficiency.
The panoply of problems to be solved, and the budgetary realities that frame possible approaches, require that greater productivity and efficiency in the problem solving processes be achieved. While no one can schedule invention, DOE can do a better job of exploiting many centers of particular expertise and unique instrumentation or facilities. Tools that obviate geographical distance as a barrier to collaboration among people, and among people using remote instruments, will shrink travel time and expense. Mechanisms that allow teams to harness multiple, geographically separate high-performance computers will give more powerful simulation tools for problem solving than ever before.
Enhanced access to DOE resources by R&D partners.
External contact by people from academia, industry, and other governmental units to DOE's expertise and facilities enables us to form better collaborative teams. Those units in turn benefit from our collaborations in their R&D activities.
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