United Technologies Corp. is the newest partner in NCSA's Industrial Program, company and university officials announced March 1.
Based in Hartford, CT, United Technologies provides a broad range of high-technology products and support services to customers in the aerospace, building systems, and automotive industries worldwide. Their best-known products include Pratt & Whitney aircraft engines, Sikorsky helicopters, Hamilton Standard aerospace systems, Carrier heating and air-conditioning systems, Otis elevators and escalators, Norden defense systems, and UT Automotive components and systems. Last year, the company's revenues totaled $22 billion.
"This agreement is a significant development because it adds one of the world's leading industrial companies to our program," says NCSA Director Larry Smarr. "They have been a pioneer in the use of massively parallel supercomputing for engineering applications in product design and manufacturing. Working with them, we aim to be an example of what the Clinton administration 'Technology for America's Economic Growth' initiative hopes to achieve."
"We're pleased to be joining NCSA," says William T. Thompkins, assistant director of research for Information Systems and Technology at the United Technologies Research Center. "NCSA has extensive experience in high-speed computer networking. They also are well known for effectively applying supercomputing as a tool in solving scientific problems--both of these areas are of great interest to United Technologies."
"United Technologies is a very successful, high-profile global company," says John Stevenson, NCSA's corporate officer. "It has a strong position in several key markets as a result of its commitment to be at the leading edge of new technology. We will all benefit from the partnership."
The initial 12-month agreement, including a two-year option, adds United Technologies to a group of ten other NCSA partners: AT&T, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical Co., Eastman Kodak Co., Eli Lilly & Co., FMC, J.P. Morgan, Motorola Inc., Phillips Petroleum Co., and Schlumberger.
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