To advance the state of the art in real applications of High Performance Computing by fostering Ethnically Diverse, Multi-disciplinary collaborations between Research, Education, and Industry.

Traditional HPC and Supercomputing Centers have continually focused on competing for the acquisition of newer and faster computing hardware resources, support, and related research agendas, sometimes at the expense of applications of the technology toward innovation and the search for knowledge. In addition the problem of under-represented groups including African-Americans and women in High Performance Computing and Science in general has gone unanswered, particularly at the crucial center formulation stage.

Howard University is in a unique position to apply an innovative approach to High Performance Computing that will fill this gap and foster true collaborations between diverse, interdisciplinary groups while leveraging the huge amount of available cutting edge resources that await truly innovative applications.

This approach, which focuses not on cutting-edge computing hardware, but on collaboration and applying the potential of widely varying groups of people, will be reflected in the center's research aims. These aims will be in-line with the core values of the university to include national and community service and the betterment of African Americans. Many of the aims will represent research on areas of particular interest to groups under-represented in research.