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.