Powering regional and national competitiveness

Businesses and industrial firms will participate in the development and use of Blue Waters through individual partners' industrial engagement programs and through the Great Lakes Consortium for Petascale Computation's Industry Partners in Petascale Engagement (IPIPE) program. In the IPIPE program, industrial partners will be able to:

• Participate in knowledge sharing seminars/webinars.
• Provide industry insight and input through participation on the External Advisory and Petascale Applications Advisory Committees.
• Establish research agreements with their Consortium partners addressing their particular challenges.
• Communicate directly with experts—researchers, scientists, programmers, and technicians—who understand the issues in petascale computing and are dedicated to solving both the particular problem for that partner and the larger problems that surround it for the entire community.
• Obtain obtain access to technological and scientific developments that flow from the petascale program.
• Use the Blue Waters petascale system to tackle their most computationally demanding challenges.
• Promote successes through an annual meeting designed to educate the larger private sector community and share grand challenge achievements.

The Blue Waters project also recognizes that the commercial applications used by industry often have serious limitations. Most users of independent software vendor (ISV) applications find that they cannot currently solve their most challenging and competitively important problems in a reasonable timeframe. To address this issue, an ISV Application Scalability Forum will promote, generate, and finance collaborations between members, ISVs, and the industrial end-user community. Projects will focus on achieving dramatic performance improvements to industry—essential ISV applications—providing U.S. industry with a strategic competitive advantage in the global marketplace.

For more information, contact Merle Giles.