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Digital Manufacturing Report Card: Who’s Finding the Missing Middle?

Numerous initiatives from government and industry have been created to address the "Missing Middle" — small manufacturers who have not adopted the digital manufacturing techniques of computer-aided modeling and ...Full Article

What Do Madagascar Penguins and HPC Have in Common?

The Council on Competitiveness and DreamWorks team up to spread the word by bird.Full Article

High-Risk, Big Payoffs from DOE’s ASCR Leadership Computing Research Program

Through its ASCR Leadership Computing Challenge (ALCC), the DOE's Advanced Scientific Computing Research program offers up to 30 percent of its computational resources at NERSC (National Energy Research Scientific ...Full Article

The New ‘King of Cool’ in Manufacturing

Recognizing their competitive value, "Big Industry" has always pioneered the development and use of analytical tools. The key word, though, is "big." Unfortunately, the advantages of analysis tools such ...Full Article

Make or Buy: Addressing the Digital Manufacturing Labor Shortage

There is no magic bullet for a hot job market such as HPC. Companies need to think holistically about what can make their company an attractive employer, and they ...Full Article

Addressing the Digital Manufacturing Labor Shortage

Gerry Ledford offers some ideas on how to increase the supply of skilled labor in the first of a two-part series.Full Article

Bringing Powerful HPC Software to Small- and Medium-Sized Manufacturers

The Department of Energy's Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) has joined the ranks of agencies, institutions and individuals determined to help small- to medium-sized manufacturers (SMMs) benefit ...Full Article

Cloud Computing and the Resurgence of Small- to Medium-Sized Manufacturers

Cloud computing has many of the same goals as time-sharing, and has the added benefit of four decades of technological advances to support its mission of bringing affordable computing ...Full Article

Case Study: AAI Corporation Builds Competitiveness with HPC and the ‘Black Art’ of Computational Fluid Dynamics

A few years ago, AAI Corporation hired Dr. Michael Guterres to lead its Aircraft Engineering Department. The company knew it had to elevate its design capabilities to be more ...Full Article

Designing Bicycle Wheels in the Cloud

While riding a bike may be easy, the aerodynamics involved in wheel design are complex, requiring powerful CFD software running on high-performance computer systems. The simulations generate so much ...Full Article

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