Business Wire (June 24) -- Success in scaling the commercial explicit finite element code LS-DYNA to 15,000 cores on Blue Waters earned an HPC Innovation Excellence Award for NCSA's Private Sector Program, Rolls-Royce, Procter and Gamble, Cray, and Livermore Software Technology Corporation. The research, co-led by MechSE adjunct professor Seid Koric, has potential to transform several industries including aerospace and automotive engine design, and consumer product development and design. Also: Yahoo Finance (June 24).