About the (SC)² Seminar 2006

Seminar 2006
Regional Business Opportunities
in Supercomputing

Online Registration

Student Posters

Poster Registration

Supercomputer Video

Sponsoring
Organizations

About the Seminar

The seminar was held at Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pa., on Friday, July 14. For a full agenda, visit the Schedule of Events section of this web site.

Interested persons and organizations should register online in advance or phone Barbara Kirby of Waynesburg College at (724) 852-3388.

There is no charge for this event.

Dr. Timothy Thyreen, President of Waynesburg College addresses the 2003 Seminar. Mark Critz, Lynn Layman and Michael Levine of PSC shared the head table.

The SuperComputing Science Consortium (SC)² offers a very special opportunity for small and large regional companies, individuals and research organizations. What does this mean to a small company? It means the opportunity to receive a grant of computer time at no charge on one of the fastest computers in the world. It can mean access to skilled people from the regional university community to help get started. It can mean an improved ability to bid on Department of Energy solicitations that regularly appear on the NETL web site.

Don’t miss the Student Poster Session, providing local firms a chance to discuss research projects with students across the region, or the Panel Discussion focusing on state and federal funding opportunities and featuring decision makers from key funding agencies.

As a result of this seminar, the research, engineering and scientific capabilities of the region will be strengthened, and the overall economic competitiveness of the region will be improved. Moreover, participants will learn about and benefit from regional capabilities that may otherwise have been unknown to them. This seminar will also provide NETL with an expanded pool of regional resources to call upon.

(SC)² is sponsoring this one-day seminar to explain regional HPC capabilities and how to use them, and equally importantly to explain funding opportunities and grant opportunities. We will provide real world examples of companies that have been successful within this framework. The 2003 conference brought together over 150 university and business researchers, economic development agents and political leaders.

The seminar is tailored to meet the needs of entrepreneurial organizations that would like to grow both their technical capabilities and their businesses. There will be real world success stories, and we'll provide dinner with a very special speaker, Stephen Meacham, Program Director, NSF Office of Cyberinfrastructure. It won't all be presentations and demos. There will be ample opportunity to network with current (SC)² members and representatives from DOE, NIH, NSF, academia and private industry.