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The 2010 Global Manufacturing Competitiveness Index is a collaboration between Deloitte and the Council on Competitiveness (Council). The study gathered data from CEOs and senior manufacturing business unit leaders in late 2009 and early 2010. It is the first major report of a multi-year initiative by the Council exploring the issues of policy and capability […]

The Council looks back at its accomplishments in 2009 and provides an detailed look at all that is planned for 2010.

This white paper was meant to frame the discussion at a recent Council on Competitiveness roundtable meeting on leveraging high performance computing (HPC) to increase the innovation and productivity of the U.S. manufacturing sector. The meeting, hosted at The George Washington University, focused on ways to use public-private partnerships to promote HPC adoption in small […]

Through the U.S. Department of Energy's INCITE program, Boeing R&D researchers gained access to Oak Ridge National Lab's leadership class systems, allowing their scientists and researchers to tackle problems beyond the reach of the company's in-house supercomputers and high performance computing (HPC) clusters, while bolstering access to their own in-house HPC capabilities.

DreamWorks Animation SKG relies on powerful high performance computing (HPC) clusters to make its characters come alive. But when the company's software engineers needed to test new software concepts to significantly improve the capabilities of their proprietary tools, DOE's INCITE program enabled the company to refine and test its redesigned software on the leadership-class supercomputer […]