Council on Competitiveness: High Productivity Computing Initiative CASC Members Meeting March 4,...

Council on Competitiveness:High Productivity Computing

Initiative

CASC Members MeetingMarch 4, 2004

Washington, D.C.

Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative

Council Background• Founded 1986 by John Young (CEO

Hewlett-Packard)

• Non-profit, non-partisan

• MissionSet a public policy action agenda that

drives economic growth and raises the standard of living for all Americans Continued


Council Background• Membership

Only national organization whose membership is comprised exclusively of CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders

• Leadership Chairman: Duane Ackerman, CEO, BellSouth

Corporation Immediate Past Chair: Raymond Gilmartin, CEO, MerckUniversity Vice Chairman: Charles Vest, President, MITLabor Vice Chairman: Sandra Feldman: President,

American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO


CASC-Members in Common• Arizona State University

• California Institute of Technology

• Carnegie Mellon University

• Georgia Institute of Technology

• Indiana University

• Ohio State University

• Purdue University

• State University of New York at Buffalo

• Texas A & M University

• The University of North Carolina• University of California, Berkeley• University of California, San

Diego• University of Illinois, Urbana-

Champaign• University of Michigan• University of Pittsburgh• University of Texas at Austin• Virginia Polytechnic Inst. & State

Univ.


Project Objective

Three-year initiative to:• Analyze the economic rationale for

sustaining U.S. Leadership in HPC • Leverage government investment in

HPC research and development for a more vibrant, dual-use market


Project Participants

• Private sector HPC users• U.S. Government agencies and

laboratories

• Industry HPC manufacturers


Project Funders• DARPA• Department of Energy

Office of ScienceNNSA

• HPC manufacturers• Cooperative funding model permits

each funder to leverage its contribution for greater return.

Council on Competitiveness HPC InitiativeProject at a Glance: Funders/Deliverables

DARPA / Private Sector

HPC Advisory Committee

Annual Private Sector User Survey

Annual Users Meeting

Private Sector

HPC Congressional Briefings via Council-Sponsored Programs:

Monthly Tech Forum

Monthly Breakfast Bytes

Annual Staff Forum Retreat

DOE Office of Science/

Private Sector

Sector Workshops

Industry Grand Challenge Case Studies

DOE NNSA

Economic Assessment

Scoping Paper


Project Components• Advisory Committee

Public/private sector executives to provide leadership and guidance to project.

Meets annually.

• Annual private sector user survey and interviews Results will identify factors that encourage/inhibit HPC

use; future applications and compute needs; opportunities for public/private sector partnership, etc.

Continued


Project Components• Industry “grand challenge” case studies

Identify: Industry-specific challenges that could make a significant contribution to company/industry/national productivity and competitiveness if more computational capability could be made available to solve them.

Address:• Barriers to accessing/applying HPC tools • Potential ROI to company/industry/country if

challenges can be solved.

Continued


• Industry sector workshopsUse grand challenge reports/survey results as

framework to identify sector-specific needs and trends related to the application of HPC.

• Economic assessment scoping paper Identify risk-reward analysis the private sector

employs when considering an investment in HPC

Offer methodology for companies to use to measure bottom-line return if not doing so now

Project Components

Continued


• Annual HPC users conferenceDARPA-Council co-sponsoredShare findings from the case studies, survey and

interviews, to identify cross-cutting sectoral needs; assess the impact of HPC on industry productivity.

• Congressional Briefings Educational outreach to Congress via Council-sponsored

programs: monthly Tech Forum (Senate) and Breakfast Bytes (House) and annual senior staff Forum Retreat.

Project Components


Project Deliverables 2004 • Put together Advisory Committee and

convene first meeting (April 27th)

• Conduct first user survey (Begin March)

• Conduct first user conference and release survey results (July 13th)

• Prepare three grand challenge case studiesContinued


Project Deliverables 2004• Conduct three sector workshops and release findings

• Prepare economic assessment scoping paper

• Congressional outreach and education

• Incorporate year-1 findings into Council’s National Innovation Summit in December, 2004 Co-chairs: Sam Palmisano, CEO, IBM and Dr. Wayne

Clough, President, Georgia Tech


Council ContactSuzy Tichenor, VP/HPC Project Director

[email protected]

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