January 23, 2012

Our goal is to Keep It Very Simple, and Provide the SMB/MM a level of Trust that their investment in time, and resources will provide the ROI they require for success. They must be assured that the risk to be borne can be managed/mitigated.  In doing so we believe we will drive down the time duration of their decision making process.

Our 1/23 workshop is the Next Step in this direction! Hope you can attend‼

Midwest Academic Cloud Computing Consortium (MARC³) www.Marc3.info

January 23, 2012

The Missing Middle: Lowering the Barrier to Modeling, Simulation, and HPC

This seminar will address 3 common barriers SMBs face in applying HPC for competitive advantage:

1. Cost

2. Facilities

3. Expertise

Date/Time: Monday January 23, 2012 at 8:00 a.m. pm to 4:00 p.m.

 HOST: DeVry University (Jim Karagiannes, Associate Dean Engineering & Information Sciences and Charles Lay, Program Dean, College of Engineering & Information Science)

Location:  3300 North Campbell Avenue,

Chicago, Illinois 60618

PolymerOhio is an Ohio Edison Technology Center that is focused on enhancing your Ohio polymer industry company's global competitiveness and growth. We do this by providing you with a broad range of value-added programs and services. PolymerOhio experts have a deep understanding of the polymer materials and processes and the products derived from these materials. PolymerOhio can help!
 
Ohio polymer companies include the entire value chain of production from design, materials and equipment through toolmakers and processors to OEM's. Resources available to you include the academic institutions, economic development resources and service providers that enable your company to continually improve and grow. We are supported by member dues and by the Ohio Department of Development.

Barriers 1, 2, and 3 addressed: Cost, Facilities, and Expertise

http://www.polymerohio.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=74

Today's business environment is rife with competitive challenges, customer requirements and financial pressures. This combination of factors has resulted in the need to find new methods for engineering more innovative products and manufacturing processes — while minimizing costs and time to market. Virtually every industry now recognizes that a key strategy for success is to incorporate computer-based engineering simulation early in the development process, allowing engineers to refine and validate designs at a stage where the cost of making changes is minimal.

At ANSYS, we bring clarity and insight to customers' most complex design challenges through fast, accurate and reliable simulation. Our technology enables organizations to predict with confidence that their products will thrive in the real world. They trust our software to help ensure product integrity and drive business success through innovation.

Barriers 1 and 3 addressed: Cost, and Expertise

http://www.ansys.com/About+ANSYS

In 2007, the founders of IO had a vision to become the premier data center services collocation provider. Within one year they had over 200 customers and 12 MW of critical power deployed and they quickly realized that they needed to expand their capabilities from both a technological and geographic perspective. With their unique combination of engineering, software, sales and information technology backgrounds they understood that Data Center 1.0 (traditional raised floor) would eventually become obsolete and ineffective. The emerging trend was clear, ever-increasing demands for rapidly deployed information infrastructure that provided true economic value and a sustainable platform for IT innovation for enterprises, governments and service providers had to be invented. They also knew that one location would no longer serve their long-term goals and in 2009, they opened their second location, IO Phoenix.

2011 was a pivotal year for IO, with the opening of their IO New Jersey data center, the IO Factory and over 500 customers in their portfolio; IO formally launched Data Center 2.0. DC 2.0 is a next-generation modular technology platform providing enterprise-class infrastructure that can be delivered as Data Center as a Service and/or rapidly deployed as a product to customer sites anywhere in the world. To manage and monitor their modular IO Anywhere products, IO developed the world's first secure data center infrastructure operating system, IO OS.2011 was a pivotal year for IO, with the opening of their IO New Jersey data center, the IO Factory and over 500 customers in their portfolio; IO formally launched Data Center 2.0. DC 2.0 is a next-generation modular technology platform providing enterprise-class infrastructure that can be delivered as Data Center as a Service and/or rapidly deployed as a product to customer sites anywhere in the world. To manage and monitor their modular IO Anywhere products, IO developed the world's first secure data center infrastructure operating system, IO OS.

Barriers 1, 2, and 3 addressed: Cost, Facilities, and Expertise

http://www.iodatacenters.com/about-io/

Event Co-Hosts: Oakton Community College

Workforce Board Northern Cook County

Illinois Institute of Technology Pritzker Institute of Biomedical Science & Engineering

Other participating institutions:

http://www.harpercollege.edu/	http://www.clcillinois.edu/

America COMPETES Reauthorization Act 2010:

“Congress finds that the utilization of high-end computing simulation and modeling by large-scale government contractors and Federal research entities has resulted in substantial improvements in the development of advanced manufacturing technologies; and such simulation and modeling would also benefit small- and medium-sized manufacturers in the United States if such manufacturers were to deploy such simulation and modeling throughout their manufacturing chains.”

Predict success in adopting HPC applications with probabilistic MARC³ Confidence Index (CI)

Agenda:

DeVry University Chicago Campus

RSVP to John Jones john.jones@marc3.info

(773) 286-0699

John P. Jones
Chief Compliance Officer
The Security Board
773-286-0699

http://www.marc3.info/

http://www.thesecurityboard.org/