National Center for Supercomputing Applications Strategic Retreat—2015 Cynthia R. McIntyre, Ph.D. Senior Vice President Council on Competitiveness April

National Center for Supercomputing Applications Strategic Retreat—2015

Cynthia R. McIntyre, Ph.D.Senior Vice PresidentCouncil on Competitiveness

April 20-21, 2010

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The Council on Competitiveness is the only group of corporate CEOs, university presidents and labor leaders committed to the future prosperity of all Americans and enhanced U.S. competitiveness in the global economy through the creation of high-value economic activity in the United States.

Council Mission


Council HPC Initiative

• The Council’s High Performance Computing

Initiative (HPC) (circa 2003) is to

• stimulate and facilitate wider usage of HPC

across the private sector

• propel U.S. productivity, innovation and

competitiveness


HPC Initiative leadership

HPC Advisory Committee

A brain trust of senior executives from the government, academia, private industry, vendors, and other key constituencies.

Co-Chairs

University Co-Chair (TBD)

David E. Shaw, Chief Scientist and CEO D.E. Shaw Research


Four modeling & simulation success stories• Goodyear leveraged high performance computing resources

• to design and launch the Assurance® all-weather tire

• hugely successful that helped them improve their competitive position

• launch a flurry of new tires that resulted in record profits.

• PING Golf to design newer, better golf clubs and stay at the top

• Pioneer Hi-Bred uses HPC to open a

• window into the future more informed decisions about their applied breeding programs and

• giving them the ability to help meet the world’s most pressing demands for food, feed, fuel, and materials.

• Whirlpool Corporation uses HPC to take a systems approach in designing its broad and varied line of appliances, including the packaging that protects products during shipping


2008 Council on Competitiveness Major Focus•Energy Security, Innovation, and Sustainability Initiative (ESIS)

– 09/2008 National Press Club Event—Energy Rec, to 44th President of US

•Nov 2008 Barak Obama, President-Elect•Nov-Dec 2008 Obama Transition Team engagement with CoC

– ESIS– Regional Innovation


•Dec 2008 Obama Science & Technology Transition Team

– Surprise! HPC– Transition Team member, Prof. Don

Lamb of University of Chicago, Director of FLASH Center• HPC & Stimulus

2008-2009 Council on Competitiveness Major Focus


•Jan 2009 HPC Advisory Committee provided input, responses included

– NCSA– IBM– Intel– Caterpillar– Boeing– GM– Cray– Proctor & Gamble Company– General Electric

2009 Obama S & T Team Request


•US faced with two major problems 2008-09

– Soaring energy costs– Financial Crisis

•U. S. Manufacturers are hard hit by these events

Intense focus on HPC in manufacturing


Intensified Council focus on HPC in manufacturing• Leveraged the experience and insight within our

advisory committee and meetings with key stakeholders from industry, academia, and government

• Realized the enormous potential for HPC to enable next-generation manufacturing in the U.S. – especially as modeling and simulation push deeper into the supply chain


•Merle Giles, NCSA

•Keven Hofstetter, Caterpillar

•Richard Arthur, General Electric

•Tom Lange, The Proctor & Gamble

Company

•Paul Fussell, Boeing

•Don Lamb, University of Chicago

HPC & Manufacturing Working Group


First white paper: High performance computing to enable next-generation manufacturing 01/09

HPC is the real “game-changer” for US manufacturers and calls for

– Improved coordination of the overall federal approach to HPC (seek a more balanced program across DOE, NSF, and so on)

– Increased outreach to manufacturing CEOs

– Establish industry focused HPC center

– Invest in US HPC expertise (e.g., education, training etc.)


Second white paper: U.S. manufacturing – global leadership through modeling and simulation 03/09National call to service to manufacturing sector leaders

1. Create a national manufacturing initiative to leverage leaders’ expertise and experience with modeling and simulation

2. Facilitate a software consortium of advanced computing users to address some of the most difficult software issues (e.g., moving legacy code to new architectures, algorithm development, licensing, etc.)

3. Establish advanced computing service centers to serve each of the 50 states to enhance R&D capacity for small to medium size manufacturers

4. Focus on “simulation-based manufacturing” and demystify HPC


•March 2009 Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Testimony

– Deborah Wince-Smith, President Council on Competitiveness (Whitepapers inform testimony)

•May 1, 2009 meeting with Department of Energy Secretary Chu on HPC for U. S. Manufacturing of Energy Systems and Beyond•August meeting - DoE Under Secretary Koonin

HPC & Manufacturing Working Group 2009


•Key meetings with Obama Administration on HPC & U. S. Manufacturing

– December 15-16, 2009 • DoE Under Secretary Koonin, • NSF Director Arden Bement, • OSTP Assistant Director of IT R& D Christopher

Greer and OSTP Assistant Director for Advanced Manufacturing Sridhar Kota

– February 24, 2010• Vivek Kundra, Federal CIO, Exec. Off. Of President• Lawrence Strickling, Asst. Sec., Natl Telecom. & Info

Administration, Dept of Commerce

HPC & Manufacturing Working Group 2009-2010


•Feb 25 High-level Roundtable on HPC and U. S. Manufacturing

– Suggested by Chris Greer of OSTP– Focus on solutions to structural barriers

and market failures to HPC use and adoption by small to medium size manufacturers and OEMs for modeling and simulation.

• Roundtable Whitepaper

HPC & Manufacturing Working Group 2009-2010


•Access to Hardware and Intellectual Capital for U. S. Manufacturers

– Lack of High-Speed Connectivity to Natl. Research Lab

– Greater access to leadership-class computing systems for capability and capacity

– SME need R&D support through modeling and simulation

•Access to Software and Intellectual Capital for U.S. Manufacturers

– Proposed--National Software Alliance

• www.compete.org/news/entry/1331/how-high-performance-computing-can-help-industry-u.s.-economy/

HPC & U. S. Manufacturing Roundtable


•OSTP discussions post the Roundtable on a potential SMM national strategy FY 2012

• Early indication from Congress–predictive modeling and simulation for manufacturing discussed as part of the proposed reauthorization legislation of NSF

•DoE INCITE program considering additional criteria specific to industry impact

•Ron Bloom Senior Counsel on Manufacturing Policy request for OEMs to show intent

Outcomes to date


• To out-compete you must out-

compute

•Industry needs

–High Fidelity Models

–Verification and Validation

–Capability and Capacity computing

Industrial Competitiveness


• Greater access to leadership-class

computing systems for capability and

capacity

•DoE

•NASA

•DoD

•NSF





capacity

•Blue Waters

–Accessible to broadest community (industry &

academic)

–Broadest flexibility (proprietary codes, no

publication required, etc.)

–Corporate R&D as important as academic

research





capacity

•PRACE-Partnership for Advanced

Computing in Europe

•DEISA-Distributed European

Infrastructure for Supercomputing

Applications

Industrial Competitiveness-EUROPE


Cynthia McIntyre, Senior VP - [email protected]

David Padgham, Policy director - [email protected]

1500 K Street, NW, Suite 850

Washington, D.C. 20005

202-682-4292 (phone)

202-682-5150 (fax)

See http://www.compete.org/hpc/ for more information

and access to all our HPC publications

Contact the Council HPC Team

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National Center for Supercomputing Applications Strategic Retreat—2015 Cynthia R. McIntyre, Ph.D. Senior Vice President Council on Competitiveness April