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The Council on Competitiveness, a national organization of business, academic and labor executives, today announced that a "Birds of a Feather" (BOF) forum will be held at the Supercomputing 2005 (SC'05) Conference in Seattle, focusing on the lack of production quality HPC application software. This session, "Evaporation of the HPC Application Software Market" will build on the Council's successful HPC Users Conference and Application Software Workshop, held in Washington, D.C. in July 2005. Panelists will discuss the challenges of maintaining and creating HPC application software suitable for a competitive, corporate "production" environment, the state of the ISV application software market, and the role of government, universities and national laboratories to help accelerate development of new and/or updated code. Dr. Stanley Ahalt, executive director of the Ohio Supercomputer Center, will moderate the roundtable discussion among panelists and BOF attendees. Panelists include: -- Paul Bemis, vice president marketing, Fluent, Inc. -- Al Geist, corporate fellow, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Thomas Lange, director, Corporate R&D Modeling & Simulation, The Procter & Gamble Company -- Loren Miller, director, IT Research Development & Engineering, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company -- Dr. Reza Sadeghi, vice president, Enterprise Computing, MSC.Software The discussion will also draw on the recently released Council/DARPA Study of