NPAC Technical Report SCCS-530
InfoMall: An Innovative Strategy for High-Performance Computing and Communications Applications Development
Kim Mills, Geoffrey Fox
Submitted October 01 1993
Abstract
InfoMall is a program led by The Northeast Parallel Architectures Center
featuring a partnership of approximately twenty-four organizations with a plan
for accelerating development of the High-Performance Computing and
Communications (HPCC) software and systems industry. HPCC is a critical
technology where the U.S. has clear international leadership and which will
have unprecedented impact on industry, education, society, and defense. The
communications component of HPCC is critical to developing HPCC products.
Acceptance of HPCC by these real world sectors has been delayed by the
extremely hard problem of HPCC software development. InfoMall employs a novel
technology development strategy involving closely linked programs in technology
extraction and certification, software development, marketing, education and
training, economic development and small business support. The process is
constructed and explained by analogy to a full service set of stores in a
shopping mall.