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Alcoa, the world's leading producer of aluminum products, was one of the first companies to make major use of high performance computing when it became the NSF-funded Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center's first industrial affiliate in 1987. When aluminum faced growing competition from plastic and other composite materials, the company used the PSC supercomputer to handle the […]

Microsoft is working with the NSF-funded National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois to develop high performance computing software products that can be used by hundreds of thousands of users. As high performance computing has moved out of the government laboratories and universities and is being adopted more broadly throughout the public […]

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 […]

Industrial Partnerships through the National Science Foundation's Supercomputing Resources The public-private partnerships jump-started by the National Science Foundation (NSF) through the university supercomputer centers it funds constitute best practice innovation prototypes that will drive America's competitiveness in the 21st century. They lay the groundwork to leverage High Performance Computing capabilities through collaborative, multidisciplinary networks that […]

The 2006 HPC Users Conference report, Collaborate. Moving Beyond Islands of Innovation, focuses on the need for a national infrastructure to advance the use of HPC among U.S. businesses. The conference addressed the necessity of industry partnerships with university HPC centers and/or national laboratories to foster innovation and competitive gain as well as the importance […]

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Leading technology analyst firm IDC completed the study gathering current information on 54 of the most important ISV organizations and 110 applications software packages used across a variety of industries. The study […]

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Leading technology analyst firm IDC completed the study gathering current information on 54 of the most important ISV organizations and 110 applications software packages used across a variety of industries. The study […]

In the Council on Competitiveness' (Council) 2004 study of U.S. industrial high performance computing (HPC) users, nearly 100 percent of the respondents indicated that they considered HPC to be indispensable to their organizations. These companies stated that they would not exist as viable businesses and could not compete effectively without HPC tools. At the same […]