The Council on Competitiveness announced the Second Annual High Performance Computing (HPC) Users Conference: Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity to be held in Washington, D.C. on July 13, 2005. The conference will feature leading executives from business, academia and the national laboratories. Discussions will focus on cutting edge problems that could profoundly advance national competitiveness and societal well being if petaflop or greater compute capability can be made available to solve them. These experts will also debate the growing gap between the HPC application software that is needed and the software that is available. The conference is part of the Council's larger mandate to foster innovation in the United States to ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. For more information on the conference please visit www.hpcusersconference.com, or contact Kelby Troutman at 781-487-4610 or [email protected].

“In a world where many nations have embraced market economies and can compete on traditional cost and quality terms, it is innovation–the ability to create new value–that will confer a competitive advantage for the United States,” said Council of Competitiveness President Deborah L. Wince-Smith. “And there are few areas of technology that hold more promise for stimulating innovation and propelling competitiveness than high performance computing. In a highly-linked, competitive global environment, out-compete increasingly means out-compute.”

WHO: The Council on Competitiveness
WHAT: Second Annual High Performance Users Conference: Accelerating Innovation for Prosperity
WHEN: July 13, 2005
WHERE: Capital Hilton Hotel, Washington, D.C.
WEBSITE: www.hpcusersconference.com

About The Council on Competitiveness

An organization of the top business, university and labor leaders in the United States, the Council on Competitiveness is responsible for influencing the course of American competitiveness on regional, national and global scales. The Council stands unique in its ability to anticipate and respond to changing economic conditions through a series of comprehensive programs to maintain competitiveness and security, support innovation, benchmark national competitiveness and shape public policy. The Council is available on the Web at http://www.compete.org.