Government’s High Performance Computing Initiative Interface with Industry

It is a pleasure for me to participate in this conference and share with you my perspectives on supercomputing in the industrial research, development, and engineering environments. I will talk to you a little bit from the perspective of an industry that has not only come late to supercomputing but also to computing in general from the science standpoint. Computing from the engineering standpoint, I think, came into the chemical industry very early, and E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company (du Pont) was one of the leaders. Use of supercomputers at du Pont is somewhat different from the