The Council on Competitiveness is hosting a briefing on Extreme Computing on July 10 in Washington, D.C.
A strong research and development community composed of collaborations between industry, national laboratories, and academia use high-performance computing to support national security, stimulate innovation, and provide solutions to the most challenging problems that our nation faces. Exascale, or more colloquially stated, extreme computing, will enable transformational and innovative advances in scientific discovery, predictive understanding of complex systems, and large-scale data management and analytics, to meet the nation’s needs in economic and national security; sustainable energy, environment, and climate; and increasingly in the industrial and commercial sectors.
Moderator:
- Dr. Eric D. Isaacs, Director, Argonne National Laboratory
Panelists:
- Mr. Nick Donofrio, Retired Executive Vice President of Innovation, IBM Corporation
- Ms. Dona Crawford, Associate Director, Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- Dr. J. Michael McQuade, Senior Vice President, Science and Technology, United Technologies Corporation
- Dr. Azer Bestavros, Director of the Hariri Institute for Computing, Boston University
The event takes place on July 10 at 3:30 p.m. in 2325 Rayburn House Office Building. Please RSVP to RSVPJuly10@compete.org.
