Compete.org — Council on Competitiveness

Council of Competitiveness

Publications

  • HPC_Proctor & Gamble

    “Procter & Gamble’s Story of Suds, Soaps, Simulations and Supercomputers.”

    Case Study

    Procter & Gamble has a new imperative: ensuring that current and new products are environmentally sustainable without sacrificing product performance and market share. Through a grant from DOE’s INCITE program P&G’s research scientists were able to study the complex interactions of billions of atoms and create simulations at the atomic level to determine how tiny submicroscopic structures impact the characteristics of the ingredients in their soaps, detergents, lotions and shampoos. 
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  • “Boeing Catches a Lift with High Performance Computing.”

    Case Study

    Through DOE’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 HPC clusters while bolstering access to their own in-house high performance computing (HPC) capabilities.
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  • HPC_DreamWorks

    “Lighting Up DreamWorks with High Performance Computing.”

    Case Study

    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 at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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