- Accelerated Strategic Computer Initiative. A massive funding project in the USA concerning research and production of high-performance systems. The main motivation is said to be the management of the USA nuclear stockpile by computational modeling instead of actual testing. ...
- 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. ...
- Several saclike cells in which meiosis occurs and whichgenerally contain eight spores each.