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Council on Competitiveness

High Performance Computing Project

Suzy Tichenor

EDUCAUSE Policy 2005

April 6, 2005

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Council Background

• Founded 1986 by John Young (CEO Hewlett-Packard)

• Non-profit, non-partisan

• Mission– Set a public policy action agenda that drives economic

growth and raises the standard of living for all Americans

Continued

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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, Merck

– University Vice Chairman: Wayne Clough, President, Georgia Institute of Technology

– Labor Vice Chairman: TBA

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Changing Competitive Environment

• U.S. is facing more serious global competitive challenges than in the past

• We can no longer compete on traditional cost and quality terms

• The ability to create new value will determine competitive advantage

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U.S. must innovate…

or abdicate its historic and unique economic role in the world

Changing Competitive Environment

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How do we create an innovation-based economy? • Finance and Investment• Education• Legal and regulatory environment • Critical emerging technologies that will drive future

economic growth

National Innovation Initiative

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High performance computing

is a key ingredient in America’s innovation capacity

High Performance Computing and Innovation

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High Performance Computing and Innovation

• HPC is an innovation accelerator– HPC shrinks “time-to-insight” and “time-to-solution”

for both discovery and invention

• Modeling and simulation with HPC has become the “third leg” of science, along with theory and experimentation

• The country that wants to out-compete must out-compute

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High Performance Computing ProjectA program of the Council’s National Innovation Initiative

Objective: Stimulate and facilitate wider usage of HPC across the private sector to propel productivity, innovation and competitiveness.

Approach• Determine whether the private sector is using HPC as

aggressively as it could and should.– If not…why not: business & technical barriers

• Explore the role of public-private sector partnerships to address barriers

• Leverage government investment in HPC R&D, systems and expertise to advance industrial and national competitiveness

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Project Participants

• Private sector HPC users

• U.S. Government agencies and laboratories

• HPC manufacturers and software developers

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Advisory Committee

                                                  

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Advisory Committee

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Advisory Committee

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INNOVATIONINNOVATION

Grand Challenges

Barriers Solutions

AdvisoryCommittee

Case StudiesWorkshops

User Conferences

HPC UserSurveys

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HPC Project:Year 1 Findings

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HPC Is Essential to Business Survival

Competitive Risk from not having access to HPC

3%

16%

34%

47%

Could exist and compete

Could not exist as a business

Could not compete on quality &testing issues

Could not compete on time to market& cost

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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness

• Reducing design costs through virtual prototyping

• Reducing physical tests for faster time to market

Image courtesy of Pratt & Whitney

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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness

• Breakthrough insights for manufacturers– Procter & Gamble uses

HPC to model production of Pringles® and Pampers®

Image courtesy of The Proctor & Gamble Company

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HPC Drives Business Competitiveness

• Shortened product development cycles– Entertainment industry must compete with foreign

animation studios

Image courtesy DreamWorks Animation SKG

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Winning Globally Requires HPC-Driven Solutions

“Public funding is needed to secure global leadership” [in aircraft, engines and equipment]

(European Aeronautics: A Vision for 2020. Meeting Society’s Needs and Winning Global Leadership)

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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible

– Lack of computational scientists (internal or external)

– Not enough people in the pipeline– Poor match between skills taught

and skills needed

• Education and Training Barriers

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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible

• Business Culture Barriers:– Is HPC an investment, or a cost? – What is the return on investment (ROI)?

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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible

• Result:– Companies don’t have the HPC tools they want

and need– Many companies have important computational

problems that they cannot solve

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Companies are not Using HPC as Aggressively as Possible

• Technical Barriers– Legacy applications software inhibits usage– Codes are often not scalable for broader industrial

use– Software licensing costs are growing, becoming a

barrier for some sites

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Supercharging US Innovation with HPC

Action Agenda:• Refine business and value models

– “Upreach” to the board room level – get CEO buy-in

• Improve HPC education and training– Multidisciplinary training; parallel programming methods

• Close the software gap• Strengthen partnerships among government,

industry and university groups

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Competitiveness Impact

Standing still is falling behind!

Remain In Market

Break out of the Pack

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Tomorrow’s Products

Competitive Necessity

Competitive Discriminator

CompetitiveOpportunity

Innovation

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Conclusion

To out-compete

You must out-compute

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Council on Competitiveness Resources

Available via www.compete.org:

• Innovate America

• HPC Users Survey

• HPC Users Conference Report and DVD

• HPC Users Conference July13, 2005

www.hpcusersconference.com

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Council Contacts

National Innovation InitiativeChad Evans, VP/NII Project Director: cevans@compete.org

David Attis, Policy Director: dattis@compete.org

High Performance ComputingSuzy Tichenor, VP/HPC Project Director: stichenor@compete.org

Melyssa Fratkin, Policy Director, HPC: mfratkin@compete.org