Council on Competitiveness Innovative Pilot Project for High Performance Computing Marks One-Year Anniversary in Scientific American
Scientific American highlights how high performance computing can provide competitive differentiation in the global marketplace for small and medium-sized manufacturers
February 24, 2012
The Council on Competitiveness “National Digital Engineering and Manufacturing Consortium” (NDEMC) marks its one-year anniversary with a major feature in the March 2012 issue of Scientific American – highlighting how high performance computing can provide competitive differentiation in the global marketplace for small and medium-sized manufacturers (SMEs) and economic development across the United States.
The Council’s NDEMC brings together a group of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) – Deere & Company, General Electric Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Procter & Gamble – with the White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the State of Ohio and Purdue University in the nation’s first, large-scale, public-private partnership focusing on providing SMEs both education and training on and access to high performance computing resources. The OEMs have committed $2.5 million in funding to NDEMC to date, and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration has matched that with a $2.0 million grant.
A year into its work, NDEMC exemplifies the role creative and cost-effective partnerships can play in turbocharging innovation and growth in the U.S. economy and industrial base – and serves as a model for potential future partnerships across the country. NDEMC will continue to select and engage SMEs to participate in the Midwest Pilot, the goal being to select 40 individual projects to complete at the end of the pilot. The Council on Competitiveness plans to apply for a grant to lead a similar Southeast Pilot later in 2012.
To read the Scientific American article, please click here.
The Council’s NDEMC brings together a group of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) – Deere & Company, General Electric Company, Lockheed Martin Corporation, and Procter & Gamble – with the White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce, the State of Ohio and Purdue University in the nation’s first, large-scale, public-private partnership focusing on providing SMEs both education and training on and access to high performance computing resources. The OEMs have committed $2.5 million in funding to NDEMC to date, and the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Economic Development Administration has matched that with a $2.0 million grant.
A year into its work, NDEMC exemplifies the role creative and cost-effective partnerships can play in turbocharging innovation and growth in the U.S. economy and industrial base – and serves as a model for potential future partnerships across the country. NDEMC will continue to select and engage SMEs to participate in the Midwest Pilot, the goal being to select 40 individual projects to complete at the end of the pilot. The Council on Competitiveness plans to apply for a grant to lead a similar Southeast Pilot later in 2012.
To read the Scientific American article, please click here.
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