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）中心和工业界之间建立公私伙伴关系的有效做法。与市场分析公司IDC合作，该项目将对70-80个不同规模的HPC中心合作伙伴进行全球深度调查，这些合作伙伴包括美国和其他地区与私营部门合作的HPC中心。该项目对我国经济竞争力具有重要意义，因为先前的研究表明，使用高性能计算可以促进产业创新和竞争力，使相关企业及其经济受益。此外，它通过解决“促进公私合作”的关键指导原则之一，直接支持总统行政命令“创建国家战略计算计划”。特别是，项目成果将有助于高性能计算中心提高其创新能力和效率，促进知识转移和劳动力发展，高性能计算中心的存在是我国高性能计算硬件、软件和人力投资的重要纽带。总之，项目实施将有以下范围和目标：*评估现有公私合作、以hpc为中心的伙伴关系项目的性质和状况。*收集和分析在个别伙伴关系和总体上运作良好的做法，以及运作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最先进的和相关的最佳做法*制作和传播一份定量定性报告，可作为有效做法和经验教训的参考指南和概要。

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.