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This paper was written to frame the discussion at a summit that brought together over 50 participants. Held at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, the goal was to discuss the necessary elements of a public-private partnership to support advancing modeling and simulation in the manufacturing supply chain. This discussion represented the […]

Prepare represents the thought leadership of a group of C-suite executives and resilience experts who met for a day and half at a Risk Intelligence and Resilience Workshop in Wilmington, DE, in the fall of 2009. Their key finding: The next new revolution in business will be in risk management and resilience.

The Council on Competitiveness (Council) has been working on regional economic development since it launched its Clusters of Innovation project in 1999 in cooperation with Harvard professor Michael Porter. As a leadership body, the Council focuses on those issues that increase U.S. productivity, innovative capacity and global competitiveness, the key elements that drive the Council’s […]

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 […]

The Council recommends that:

The Council recommends that:

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 […]