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The Council on Competitiveness, a national organization of business, academic and labor leaders, announced the agenda for the High Performance Computing (HPC) Users Conference on July 13, 2005. The conference will showcase Keynote Speaker Roger Enrico, Chairman of DreamWorks Animation SKG, discussing how High Performance Computing can capture global market share, and feature a variety of leading industry, university and government executives discussing cutting-edge problems that industry must solve to stay at the front of global competition. At the conference, leaders from industry, academia and the national laboratories will discuss grand challenge problems whose solutions could have a significant impact on competitiveness if more computational capability were available. They will also examine the gap between available HPC application software and the needs of users. The conference is part of the Council's larger mandate to foster innovation in the United States to ensure the competitiveness of the U.S. economy. It is co-sponsored by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration and Office of Science and the National Science Foundation. For more information on the conference and its speakers visit the HPC User Conference's website at www.hpcusersconference.com. When: July 13, 2005, 7:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. ET Where: Capital Hilton Hotel 1001 16th Street Washington, DC 20036 Who: Leading executives from business, academia and the national laboratories including: -- Deborah L. Wince-Smith, President, Council on Competitiveness -- Dr. Karen A. Holbrook, President, The Ohio State University and Co-Chair, Council on Competitiveness High Performance Computing Advisory Committee -- Roger Enrico, Chairman, DreamWorks Animation SKG -- Dr. Jeffrey Wadsworth, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory -- Guru Bhatia, GM, Director, Engineering Computing Information Technology Group, Intel Corporation -- Dr. Mark H. Ellisman, Professor of Neurosciences and Bioengineering, University of California San Diego -- Dr. George Michaels, Associate Laboratory Director, Computational and Information Sciences Directorate, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory -- Dr. Michael Zyda, Director, GamePipe Laboratory, Viterbi School of Engineering, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California -- Dr. Earl Joseph, Research Vice President, High-Performance Systems Program, International Data Corporation -- Dr. Graham B. Spanier, President The Pennsylvania State University -- Paul Bemis, Vice President marketing, Fluent Inc. -- Dr. William Camp, Director, Computation, Computers, Information and Mathematics, Sandia National Laboratories -- Dona Crawford, Associate Director Computation, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- Loren Miller, Director, IT Research Development & Engineering, The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company -- Dr. Donald Paul, Chief Technology Officer, Chevron Corporation -- Dr. Reza Sadeghi, Vice President, Solver Development, MSC.Software Corporation -- Dr. David E. Shaw, Chairman, D.E. Shaw & Co., Inc., and Co-Chair, Council on Competitiveness High Performance Computing Advisory Committee