The Ira A. Fulton School High Performance Computing Initiative (HPCI) at Arizona State University offers world-class high performance computing to the school's researchers and their industrial partners.

The HPCI's mission is to be:

• A center for best practice in the support of, application of, and education in cluster computers for high performance scientific computing.
• A hub for collaborative science and engineering, where novel use of high performance scientific computing leads to new innovation and accelerated scientific progress.
• A center for research in new ideas in the architectures, operating systems, and applications of high performance computer systems.

The US Council on Competitiveness, in recognizing the significance of high-performance computing to modern product design, has declared in the global marketplace, "to out-compete is to out-compute." High Performance Computing is a focus at every national lab, every university, and most of the Fortune 500. However, many high performance computing centers run below capacity, largely due to a lack of qualified users and operators.

The Fulton HPCI will meet these challenges by being one of the first supercomputer facilities focused on the integration of undergraduate education with high performance computing to produce the next generation of engineering research leaders fluent in computational science.