ITI and GSA Partner to Convene Leading Federal and Industry HPC Experts
WASHINGTON – Global tech trade association ITI and the U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) convened leading experts from the U.S. government and private sector for a virtual High-Performance Computing (HPC) Summit today. The summit highlighted the key role implementing HPC plays in advancing U.S. economic competitiveness, fueling scientific research, and accelerating innovation.
The summit, co-sponsored by the Federal Chief Information Officers Council, gathered the federal and industry communities together for a series of panel discussions covering HPC implementation progress, opportunities, and best practices featuring distinguished speakers from the public and private sectors.
“Partnering with the U.S. government will be crucial for the tech industry as we look to implement HPC solutions in novel ways that can advance innovative solutions to shared challenges. The HPC Summit today offered a unique opportunity for public and private stakeholders to discuss collaboration efforts and for industry to showcase HPC success stories, use cases, and best practices,” said Gordon Bitko, ITI’s Executive Vice President of Policy.“The tech industry is a vital voice that the federal government must continue to consider and leverage to move forward its bold innovation and economic competition goals.”
“During a recent visit to the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, I learned that high-performance computing is delivering solutions at incredible speed, from modeling biomedical science to fight cancer to better forecasting tornadoes, improving our military, and combating climate change,” said Tom Santucci, Director of Information Technology Modernization at the General Services Administration. “At this summit, we shared the importance of this technology by bringing it to the masses and showing how the Federal Government and industry partner together to use high-performance computing for the maximum benefit of our citizens.”
Speakers at the High-Performance Computing Summit included ITI members HPE, Microsoft, Google, IBM, and Intel. Current and former federal agency senior leaders, including from the Department of Energy, Department of Commerce, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, also participated in the summit, along with subject matter experts from multiple U.S. national labs, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the Department of Defense, and others.
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