DOE Office of Science — Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR)

Offers DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research for practical innovation and measurable outcomes.

DOE Office of Science's Advanced Scientific Computing Research program funds supercomputing, advanced networking, computational science, applied mathematics, computer science, quantum information science, and AI for science. It supports DOE's energy and scientific missions through the Office of Science and anchors access to facilities such as ALCF at Argonne, OLCF at Oak Ridge, NERSC in Berkeley, Frontier, Aurora, and ESnet.

Funding runs through PAMS and Grants.gov, with the FY2026 Continuation umbrella, the Genesis Mission FOA, the ASCR Early Career Research Program, and lab-only solicitations such as robotics and automation testbeds. INCITE gives access to Frontier and Aurora on an annual cycle, while SciDAC ties ASCR to other Office of Science offices in multidisciplinary collaborations.

ASCR is strongest for teams that need high-performance computing, quantum computing, advanced networking, or scientific machine learning to move a mission project forward. Proposals tend to succeed when they are computationally heavy, tightly matched to the call, and framed around a real science problem rather than generic software development.