NPAC Technical Report SCCS-531
InfoMall: A Scalable Organization for the Development of HPCC Software and Systems
Geoffrey Fox, Edward Bogucz, Deborah Jones, Kim Mills, Marek Podgorny
Submitted September 07 1993
Abstract
InfoMall is a program led by The Northeast Parallel
Architectures Center (NPAC) featuring a partnership of over twenty-five
organizations and 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 dual-use impact on industry, education, society, and
defense. Acceptance of HPCC by these real world sectors is held up by the
extremely hard problem of HPCC software development. InfoMall employs a novel
technology development strategy involving closely linked programs in technology
execution and certification, software development, marketing, education and
training, economic development and small business support. InfoMall has
excellent HPCC and other facility infrastructure. InfoMall partners have
unrivaled expertise in all the areas critical to rapid development of the HPCC
software industry. The process is constructed and explained by analogy to a
full service set of stores in a shopping mall. InfoMall is a concept which can
create 15,000 jobs in New York State, and be scaled in future years to create
an order of magnitude more jobs nationally.