This collaborative study was conducted by the Council on Competitiveness (Council) and IDC on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DEO/NNSA). The main study included 12 industrial partners and was conducted from December 2005 to January 2006.
This study examines the requirements, needs and experiences of High Performance Computing users related to partnerships with the NNSA Office of Advance Simulation and Computing (ASC) Alliance Centers at Stanford University, University of Utah, and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on behalf of the Council and NNSA. It explores how industrial companies have worked with these centers and identifies what worked well and what did not in order to collect ideas on how to make these partnerships work better in the future.
