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

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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_at_ieee.org

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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.

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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

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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

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U.S. Computational Science Programs

• 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

• 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

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