By: TOP500 Team

The National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (NCSA) is enabling software heavily used in industry to run faster, and it’s creating competitive advantages for some of the nation’s largest companies. Industry is a heavy user of supercomputing: it is central to the business of companies within diverse sectors such as oil and gas, pharmaceutical, aerospace and automotive. In engineering and manufacturing, powerful simulations are used extensively to design and prototype new products, to ensure crash safety or to enhance aerodynamic efficiency.

Merle Giles leads the Private Sector Program (PSP) and economic development initiatives at NCSA, and PSP members — including Rolls Royce, Procter & Gamble and Caterpillar — are tapping NCSA’s high-performance computing (HPC) expertise. Sixty percent of manufacturers in the Fortune 100 have worked with NCSA. And, with its high-profile impact, NCSA’s PSP is now set to play a key role in the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute — a public-private partnership formed with $300M of investment from government and industry.

Read the full article on Scientific Computing.