Publications

“Goodyear Puts the Rubber to the Road with High Performance Computing.”

Case Study

In 2003 and 2004, the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company found itself in a definite slump, suffering declining revenues and losing out to its two main competitors, Michelin and Bridgestone. In response, Goodyear leveraged its high performance computer clusters and its ongoing collaborative relationship with the Sandia National Laboratories to change the way it developed tires. Rather than designing, building and testing physical prototypes, Goodyear engineers used modeling and simulation to test virtual models and significantly cut time to market. The result was the Assurance® all-weather tire featuring TripleTred Technology®, a huge hit that helped Goodyear not only climb out of the hole it was in, but continue on to launch a flurry of new tires that resulted in record profits.
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“Governor’s Guide to Cluster-Based Strategies for Growing State Economies.”

A collaboration with the National Governors Association

Cluster strategies have the potential to accelerate regional economic growth, but only if they are properly understood and applied. The Governor’s Guide examines the changing economic environment in which clusters function, summarizes the lessons learned from recent experience, and offers practical recommendations for cluster initiatives that governors can take to strengthen their states’ economies.
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“Grand Challenge Case Study: Auto Crash Safety.”

Auto Crash Safety: It’s Not Just for Dummies

Auto Crash Safety: It’s Not Just for Dummies, 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.
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“Grand Challenge Case Study: Crude Oil Catalysts.”

Customized Catalysts to Improve Crude Oil Yields: Getting More Bang from Each Barrel

Customized Catalysts to Improve Crude Oil Yields: Getting More Bang from Each Barrel, 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.
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“Grand Challenge Case Study: Oil and Gas Recovery.”

Keeping the Lifeblood Flowing: Boosting Oil and Gas Recovery from the Earth

Keeping the Lifeblood Flowing: Boosting Oil and Gas Recovery from the Earth, 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.
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“Grand Challenge Case Study: Textile Manufacturing.”

Spin Fiber Faster to Gain a Competitive Edge for U.S. Textile Manufacturing

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.
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“Grand Challenge Case Study: Vehicle Design.”

Full Vehicle Design Optimization for Global Market Dominance

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.
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“High Performance Computing (DVD).”

Accelerating Innovation to Enhance Everyday Life

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.
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“High Performance Computing and U.S. Manufacturing Roundtable.”

White Paper

This white paper was meant to frame the discussion at a recent Council on Competitiveness roundtable meeting on leveraging high performance computing (HPC) to increase the innovation and productivity of the U.S. manufacturing sector. The meeting, hosted at The George Washington University, focused on ways to use public-private partnerships to promote HPC adoption in small and mid-sized U.S. manufacturing companies.
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“High Performance Computing Drives a “Can-Do” Attitude at Alcoa.”

Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of aluminum products, was one of the first companies to make major use of high performance computing when it became the NSF-funded Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center’s first industrial affiliate in 1987. When aluminum faced growing competition from plastic and other composite materials, the company used the PSC supercomputer to handle the complex modeling and simulations needed to get the jump on their competitors by successfully redesigning cans for the beverage industry and a variety of components for the automotive, aerospace, building and construction industries.
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