ASCI (Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative) is an initiative of Defense Programs at the U S Department of Energy, in collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Sandia National Laboratories The ASCI Project aims at verifying the safety, reliability, and performance of the U S nuclear stockpile by shifting from nuclear test based methods to computer simulations based methods
Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative -- Its grid securely connects three U S Department of Energy (DOE) Labs, including Sandia National Labs, Lawrence Livermore National Lab and Los Alamos National Lab
American Standard Code for Information Interchange A standard coding technique for representing computer information The 7-bit ASCII code contains 128 possible character values from hexadecimal 00 to 7F The 8-bit ASCII code or Extended ASCII contains 256 possible character values from hexadecimal 00 to FF Printable characters such as A and % are found in the range hex 20 to 7E