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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 […]

2005 HPC Users Conference FInal Report Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity, features observations of senior government, business and academic HPC users and policy makers, regarding the lack of application software that industry needs to fully exploit HPC for competitive advantage. The report also contains the executive summary of the Council's 2005 Study of Independent Software Vendors […]

In 2004, more than 500 leaders from around the world attended the National Innovation Summit in Washington, D.C., where the Council on Competitiveness released the landmark report, Innovate America: Thriving in a World of Challenge and Change. The report lays out an action agenda for a wide range of stakeholders to improve U.S. innovation capacity. […]

Regional Innovation, National Prosperity is a summary of the Regional Competitiveness Initiative as well as the proceedings of the National Summit on Regional Innovation, held in April 2005. Integrating the Council's findings from the past two years and the conference discussions, this report identifies five key cross-cutting issues faced by regions seeking to build innovation-based […]

High performance computing (HPC) has been and will continue to be a key ingredient in America's innovation capacity. It accelerates the innovation process by shrinking "time-to-insight" and "time-to-solution" for both discovery and invention. Along with theory and experimentation, modeling and simulation with high performance computers has become the third leg of science and the path […]

High performance computing (HPC) has been and will continue to be a key ingredient in America's innovation capacity. It accelerates the innovation process by shrinking "time-to-insight" and "time-to-solution" for both discovery and invention. Along with theory and experimentation, modeling and simulation with high performance computers has become the third leg of science and the path […]

High performance computing (HPC) has been and will continue to be a key ingredient in America's innovation capacity. It accelerates the innovation process by shrinking "time-to-insight" and "time-to-solution" for both discovery and invention. Along with theory and experimentation, modeling and simulation with HPC has become the third leg of science and the path to competitive […]

High performance computing (HPC) has been and will continue to be a key ingredient in America's innovation capacity. It accelerates the innovation process by shrinking "time-to-insight" and "time-to-solution" for both discovery and invention. Along with theory and experimentation, modeling and simulation with high performance computers has become the third leg of science and the path […]

High performance computing (HPC) has been and will continue to be a key ingredient in America's innovation capacity. It accelerates the innovation process by shrinking "time-to-insight" and "time-to-solution" for both discovery and invention. Along with theory and experimentation, modeling and simulation with high performance computers has become the third leg of science and the path […]

Greater Rochester has the assets necessary to develop a strong entrepreneurial economy. Indeed, the Rochester area surpasses most regions in the United States on many dimensions relevant to supporting innovation and entrepreneurship. However, to date, the region has not become an entrepreneurial success story. The Regional Innovation Initiative received a grant from the Small Business […]