G.Sprague1
ALCOA Lab
Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of aluminum products, was one of the fi rst companies to
make major use of high performance computing when it became the NSF-funded Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center’s fi rst industrial affi liate in 1987. When aluminum faced growing competition
from plastic and other composite materials, the company used the PSC supercomputer to handle
the complex modeling and simulations needed to get the jump on their competitors by successfully
redesigning cans for the beverage industry and a variety of components for the automotive,
aerospace, building and construction industries. (The Council on Competitiveness © 2008)
ALCOA Lab
Alcoa, the world’s leading producer of aluminum products, was one of the fi rst companies to
make major use of high performance computing when it became the NSF-funded Pittsburgh
Supercomputing Center’s fi rst industrial affi liate in 1987. When aluminum faced growing competition
from plastic and other composite materials, the company used the PSC supercomputer to handle
the complex modeling and simulations needed to get the jump on their competitors by successfully
redesigning cans for the beverage industry and a variety of components for the automotive,
aerospace, building and construction industries. (The Council on Competitiveness © 2008)