High-Performance Computing for All: Providing Access to High-Performance Computing for Small Businesses, Entrepreneurs, And Inventors Would Be a Boon to Innovation (High-Performance COMPUTING‪)‬

The United States faces a global competitive landscape undergoing radical change, transformed by the digital revolution, globalization, the entry of emerging economies into global commerce, and the growth of global businesses. Many emerging economies seek to follow the path of the worlds innovators. They are adopting innovation-based growth strategies, boosting government R&D, developing research parks and regional centers of innovation, and ramping up the production of scientists and engineers. As scientific and technical capabilities grow around the world, the United States cannot match the traditional advantages of emerging economies. It cannot compete on low wages, commodity products, standard services, and routine or incremental technology development. Knowledge and technology are increasingly commodities, so rewards do not necessarily go to those who have a great deal of these things. Instead, rewards go to those who know what to do with knowledge and technology once they get it, and who have the infrastructure to move quickly.