NPAC Technical Report SCCS-721
A Scalable Organisation for the Development of High Performance Computing and Communications Software and Systems
Geoffrey Fox, Edward Bogucz, Deborah Jones, Kim Mills, Marek Podgorny, Kenneth Hawick
Submitted April 4 1994
Abstract
InfoMall is a programme lead by the Northeast Parallel Architectures
Center (NPAC) featuring a partnership of over twenty-five organisations
and a plan for accelerating development of the High Performance Computing
and Communications (HPCC) software and systems industry. HPCC (or HPCN
as it is known in Europe) is a critical technology which will have
unprecedented 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 programmes
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 the full-service set
of stores found in a shopping mall. InfoMall is a concept which can
create 15,000 jobs in New York State alone, and be scaled in future years
to create an order of magnitude more jobs nationally.