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.

Spin Fiber Faster to Gain a Competitive Edge for U.S. Textile Manufacturing, sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, provides additional evidence, along with concrete and quantifiable assessments, of the economic benefits of HPC-driven innovation. This report is one of five in this first series of grand challenge studies describing some of the “what if” questions that HPC can address and the new opportunities for economic growth it can create. The grand challenge studies focus on the oil and gas, chemical, and auto industries.

Full Vehicle Design Optimization for Global Market Dominance, sponsored by the Department of Energy Office of Science, provides additional evidence, along with concrete and quantifiable assessments, of the economic benefits of HPC-driven innovation. This report is one of five in this first series of grand challenge studies describing some of the “what if” questions that HPC can address and the new opportunities for economic growth it can create. The grand challenge studies focus on the oil and gas, chemical, and auto industries.

The final report from the 2004 High Performance Computing Users Conference, Supercharging U.S. Innovation & Competitiveness, features the observations of senior government, business and academic high performance computing (HPC) users and policy makers, regarding grand challenge problems that require petascale capability and the barriers limiting private sector application of HPC.