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Progressive Dialogue III: Demand Drivers for Sustainable Energy Solutions While energy suppliers are beginning to make the new investments and implement new approaches to producing and delivering energy, they require a level playing field on subsidies and transparent energy prices, along with well-designed regulations, informed consumers, innovative workforce development partnerships and confidence that responsibility for […]

The Future of Energy Security and Sustainability In 2007, the Council on Competitiveness launched the Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability (ESIS) Initiative to explore the linkages between the United States’ need for greater energy security, the global imperative for environmental sustainability and U.S. economic competitiveness at the enterprise and national levels. Through extensive dialogues, the […]

In 2003 and 2004, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company found itself in a definite slump, suffering declining revenues and losing out to its two main competitors, Michelin and Bridgestone. In response, Goodyear leveraged its high performance computer clusters and its ongoing collaborative relationship with the Sandia National Laboratories to change the way it developed […]

In 2007, the Council on Competitiveness launched the Energy Security, Innovation & Sustainability (ESIS) Initiative to explore the linkages between the United States’ need for greater energy security, the global imperative for environmental sustainability and U.S. economic competitiveness at the enterprise and national levels. Through extensive dialogues, the ESIS Initiative brought together high-level experts from […]

PING, a manufacturer of high-end golf equipment, is in a fiercely competitive marketplace where the phrase "innovate or die" is a literal truth. In 2005, the company replaced the workstation that had been used to simulate the design of new clubs with a powerful supercomputer running advanced simulation software. The machine paid for itself in […]

Virtual product development using in-house supercomputing capabilities has allowed Whirlpool Corporation to take a systems approach to designing not only its broad and varied line of appliances, but also the packaging that protects the products during shipping. High performance computing at the company is operating in a full-fledged production environment, delivering significant payback. Top management […]

High performance computing (HPC) is enabling researchers at Pioneer Hi-Bred, a DuPont business, to conduct leading-edge research into plant genetics to create improved varieties of seeds. Pioneer researchers use HPC to manage and analyze massive amounts of molecular, plant, environmental and farm management data, allowing them to make product development decisions much faster than by […]

Many U.S. manufacturers and their supply chains are in crisis. In this time of crisis, the United States has the technological tools to maintain a competitive edge and global leadership in manufacturing, but failure to utilize the game-changing tool of high performance computing (HPC) for modeling, simulation, and analysis poses a real risk to the […]