SMMs

A Fast Growing Company, an Expanding IT Department – a Recipe for Stress

<img style="float: left;" src="http://media2.hpcwire.com/dmr/Psychology-Stress-Brain-Test-7_small.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="95" />Tata Steel Automotive Engineering, a case in point, combines the advantages of an open source workload management solution with commercial support.Full Article

Blue Collar Computing Revisited: Lessons Learned

A detailed and thoughtful look at how the Ohio Supercomputer Center has addressed the challenges associated with providing HPC to small- and medium-sized manufacturers. It hasn't been easy, but ...Full Article

Floating All Boats: A Conversation with NCSA’s Merle Giles

If you'e simulating the universe, it helps to have a machine like NASA's Pleiades supercomputer. But if you want to use a supercomputer to design a better aircraft wing ...Full Article

What’s the Latest on NDEMC? A Conversation with the Council on Competitiveness

The Council on Competitiveness is working towards creating a public-private partnership (PPP) to connect small- and medium-sized manufacturers with advanced digital manufacturing techniques such as modeling and simulation. The ...Full Article

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

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

SGI Expands CFD Capability with OpenCFD Acquisition

After acquiring OpenCFD last month, SGI said it would continue to offer the company's flagship open-source CFD software, OpenFOAM, free to the business, government and academic communities under the ...Full Article

A Tradition of Small Business in America

Handshake deals are part of America's legacy, but it's getting harder and harder to sell a product, including yourself, based on old ways.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