The 2006 HPC Users Conference report, Collaborate. Moving Beyond Islands of Innovation, focuses on the need for a national infrastructure to advance the use of HPC among U.S. businesses. The conference addressed the necessity of industry partnerships with university HPC centers and/or national laboratories to foster innovation and competitive gain as well as the importance of HPC within the supply chain to maximize efficiency, profitability, and cost control.

This collaborative study was conducted by the Council on Competitiveness and IDC on behalf of the National Science Foundation (NSF). The study explores the experiences of 40 users of NSF-funded University HPC Centers to determine how to improve these partnerships in the future.

This collaborative study was conducted by the Council on Competitiveness and IDC on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy/National Nuclear Security Administration (DEO/NNSA). The study looks at the experiences of industrial companies with NNSA Office of Advance Simulation and Computing Alliance Centers.

The Council on Competitiveness is pleased to announce the release of the popular video showcasing how high performance computing (HPC) impacts everyday life, starring the humorous penguin characters from the hit DreamWorks Animation movie Madagascar.

The Council on Competitiveness and the Ohio Supercomputer Center co-hosted a day-long workshop: Accelerating Innovation For Competitive Advantage: The Need For HPC Application Software Solutions. This workshop examined the gap between the production-quality, application software that industry needs and the software that is available. The report offers a roadmap of public-private sector actions to address this challenge. Participants included HPC users, independent software vendors (ISVs), university researchers, hardware vendors, and government scientists and engineers.

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Part A of this two-part study reflects the opinions and insights of more than 100 independent software vendors.

The Council on Competitiveness performed the first-ever comprehensive study of independent software vendors (ISVs) serving the high performance computing (HPC) market in 2005. Part B of this two-part study is a survey of industrial end users or buyers of HPC systems, and it explores their views and concerns about ISV application software and other barriers to using HPC more aggressively for competitive advantage.