1. Council on Competitiveness: High Productivity Computing Initiative CASC Members Meeting March 4, 2004 Washington, D.C.

2. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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

3. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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: Charles Vest, President, MIT  Labor Vice Chairman: Sandra Feldman: President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO

4. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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.

5. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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

6. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Project Participants Private sector HPC users U.S. Government agencies and laboratories Industry HPC manufacturers

7. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Project Funders DARPA Department of Energy  Office of Science  NNSA HPC manufacturers Cooperative funding model permits each funder to leverage its contribution for greater return.

8. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Project 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

9. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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

10. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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

11. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Industry sector workshops  Use 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

12. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Annual HPC users conference  DARPA-Council co-sponsored  Share 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

13. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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 13 th ) Prepare three grand challenge case studies Continued

14. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative 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

15. Council on Competitiveness HPC Initiative Council Contact Suzy Tichenor, VP/HPC Project Director  202-969-3398  stichenor@compete.org