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The Department of Energy (DoE) has adopted The Council on Competitiveness' recommendation to open the Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program to industry proposals for the first time ever. The change in the INCITE program is a result of recommendations developed by the Council's High Performance Computing Initiative. In addition to universities and other research programs, U.S. businesses are now able to submit proposals to utilize the DoE's most advanced high performance computers at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory. "As part of our High Performance Computing initiative, we identified the opportunity for the U.S. government to leverage its investment in this technology with industry participation in the INCITE program," said Council on Competitiveness President Deborah L. Wince-Smith. "Fostering innovation is critical to the growth of the U.S. economy and high performance computing accelerates the innovation process by shrinking time to insight. Industry now has the opportunity to submit proposals to run its most complex and most competitively important problems on leadership class systems, accelerating the innovation and solution process." Participation at the July 13, 2005 Users Conference is open to anyone and registration is now open at its Website. High Performance Computing Initiative -- The Council's High Performance Computing Initiative has galvanized a dialogue among government agencies, system and software developers and private sector users of high performance computing to leverage government R&D investment in this technology and facilitate wider usage across the private sector to propel innovation and competitiveness. As part of the initiative, the Council convenes an annual High Performance Computing Users conference to share the results and findings from case studies, surveys and interviews to identify application needs that cut across sectors and to assess the impact of this technology on industry productivity. For more information on the INCITE program and proposals, visit its Website.