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 title: Consortium for the Advancement of Scientific Software
-excerpt:  A federation of member organizations dedicated to the stewardship and advancement of the scientific software ecosystem
+#excerpt:  A federation of member organizations dedicated to the stewardship and advancement of the scientific software ecosystem
+excerpt: Helping steward high-performance parallel software that enables computational science and engineering applications which are advancing scientific discovery
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