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Rocky Mountain Supercomputing Centers’ (RMSC) Executive Director Earl J. Dodd has accepted an invitation from the U.S. Council on Competitiveness to serve on its High Performance Computing (HPC) Advisory Committee. This committee spearheads the Council’s initiatives to promote HPC technology as a means of stimulating innovation and productivity in the United States.

“Together, we will build the case for increased investments in HPC as one of the foundational technologies the U.S. needs in order to accelerate innovation, productivity and job growth – and deliver that message with a unified voice to the policy and decision makers,” wrote Deborah L. Wince-Smith, Council on Competitiveness President & CEO, in her invitation to Earl Dodd.

Dodd said, “This invitation is a personal honor that brings with it a serious responsibility to seek new ways to implement HPC technology in support of our national security and economic growth imperatives.”

The Council on Competitiveness is a non-partisan organization comprised of CEOs, university presidents, and labor leaders working together to ensure U.S. prosperity by generating innovative policy solutions that address America’s long-term competitiveness challenges. The Council, which sees HPC technology as crucial to U.S. competitiveness in industry and education, formed the HPC Advisory Committee in 2004. The committee includes HPC thought leaders from business, academia and government sectors.

RMSC’s Dodd will be meeting bi-annually with other committee members to devise an action-oriented strategy and recommend how public investment in high performance computing can positively impact the United States. Dodd’s first committee meeting will be March 21, 2011, in Livermore, California.

Headquartered in Butte, RMSC is a public-private partnership funded by Montana to drive economic development in the state and region and build a 21st Century workforce by eliminating the barriers that have traditionally prevented small- to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), government agencies and tribal businesses from leveraging the power of high performance computing (HPC). In little more than a year, RMSC has set up a unique HPC Cloud infrastructure and on-demand business model that enable organizations in the public and private sectors to run their critical applications at the speed and through-put capacity of a supercomputer.