The Missing Links to Widespread Improvements in U.S. Industrial Global Competitiveness

1. The Missing Links to Widespread Improvements in U.S. Industrial Global Competitiveness Myron Ginsberg, Ph.D. ACM Fellow, IEEE Senior Member, and CTO HPC Research and Education Farmington Hills, MI 48335-1222 E-mail: m.ginsberg@ieee.org

2. Abstract of Presentation • This presentation will focus on current high-performance computing (HPC) barriers in U.S. industry and several approaches to improve the situation and resultant U.S. industrial competitiveness. The following topics will be included: U.S. Council on Competitiveness studies of U.S. globalization; reasons for lagging behind government research labs/academic research groups; reducing the time gap between product conception and production via use of HPC tools; arising opportunities for cooperative and innovative efforts with government labs and universities; and a collection of internet references documenting U.S. industry successes and failures as well as challenges to significantly improve effective product globalization.

3. Outline of Presentation • HPC importance for everyone • Flavors of HPC • Industrial HPC bottlenecks • HPC industrial success stories • Missing links • Challenges to all HPC users • Will HPC improve global competitiveness? • References

4. Missing Links • CSE Support Personnel • Assessing HPC Application Needs • Access to HPC Hardware Resources • ROI Case to Upper Management • ISV Tech Transfer Role • Opportunities for Gov/Academic Collaboration • Meeting Challenges to All HPC Users • On-Demand HPC cycles

5. Clark University Florida State Dept. of Sci Comp George Mason University George Washington U (VA) Georgia State University Georgia Tech University Indiana U (Bloomington) Mississippi State University MIT New York University Ohio University Old Dominion University Oregon State University Penn State University Princeton University Purdue University Rensselaer Polytechnic Rice University San Diego State University Stanford University SUNY Brockport SUNY Stony Brook Syracuse University U of California, Berkeley U of California, Santa Barbara U of Colorado (Denver) U of Delaware U of Houston U of Illinois (Chicago) U of Illinois (Urbana) U of Iowa U of Maryland (College Park) U of Michigan (Ann Arbor) U of Michigan (Dearborn) U of Minnesota U of Tennessee (Chattanooga) U of Tennessee (Knoxville) U of Texas (Austin) U of Utah College of William and Mary Wittenberg University Wofford College U.S. Computational Science Programs

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