EAGER: Supporting the NSCI Effort by Evaluating and Disseminating Effective Practices in Partnerships between HPC Centers and Industry

该项目将确定、记录和分析在高性能计算（HPC）中心和行业之间建立公私合作伙伴关系的有效做法。 该项目将与市场分析公司IDC合作，在全球范围内对70-80个不同规模的HPC中心的合作伙伴关系进行深入调查，这些合作伙伴关系涉及美国和其他地方与私营部门的合作。该项目对我们的国家经济竞争力非常重要，因为先前的研究表明，HPC的使用可以促进工业创新和竞争力，使相关公司及其经济受益。 此外，它直接支持总统行政命令“创建国家战略计算计划”，解决其关键指导原则之一“促进公私合作”。 特别是，项目成果将帮助HPC中心，其存在是我国HPC硬件，软件和人力投资的重要联系，提高其创新和有效性，使行业参与知识转移和劳动力发展。 总之，该项目的实施将有以下范围和目标：* 评估现有的公私合作，以HPC为中心的伙伴关系计划的性质和状态。 收集和分析在个别伙伴关系和总体上行之有效的做法，沿着收集和分析效果不佳的做法和即将取得更大成功的问题，以便掌握这些伙伴关系中的最新技术和相关最佳做法 * 编写和分发一份定量-定性报告，作为有效做法和经验教训的参考指南和简编。

The project will identify, document, and analyze effective practices in establishing public-private partnerships between High Performance Computing (HPC) centers and industry. With the market analysis firm IDC, the project will conduct a worldwide in-depth survey of 70-80 example partnerships of HPC centers of various sizes, in the US and elsewhere, that have been involved in partnerships with the private-sector. The project is important to our national economic competitiveness because prior studies have shown that the use of HPC can boost industrial innovation and competitiveness, benefiting the firms in question and their economies. Additionally, it directly supports the Presidential executive order 'Creating a National Strategic Computing Initiative' by addressing one of its key guiding principle to 'foster public-private collaboration'. In particular, the project outcomes will help HPC centers, whose existence serve as an important nexus in our nation's HPC hardware, software, and human investments, improve their innovation and effectiveness in engaging industry for knowledge transfer and workforce development. In summary, the project implementation will have the following scope and goals:* Evaluate the nature and status of existing public-private, HPC-centered partnership programs.* Collect and analyze practices that have worked well in individual partnerships and in the aggregate, along with practices that have not worked well and issues impending greater success, in order to capture the state-of-the-art and associated best practices in these partnerships* Produce and disseminate a quantitative-qualitative report that can serve as a reference guide and compendium of effective practices and lessons learned.