NPAC Technical Report SCCS-722
Distributed Information Management in the National HPCC Software Exchange
Shirley Browne, Jack Dongarra, Geoffrey Fox, Kenneth Hawick, Ken Kennedy, Rick Stevens, Robert Olson, Tom Rowan
Submitted July 17 1995
Abstract
The National HPCC Software Exchange is a collaborative effort by
member institutions of the Center for Research on Parallel Computation
to provide network access to HPCC-related software, documents, and
data. Challenges for the NHSE include identifying, organizing,
filtering, and indexing the rapidly growing wealth of relevant
information available on the Web. The large quantity of information
necessitates performing these tasks using automatic techniques, many
of which make use of parallel and distribution computation, but human
intervention is needed for intelligent abstracting, analysis, and
critical review tasks. Thus, major goals of NHSE research are to find
the right mix of manual and automated techniques, and to leverage the
results of manual efforts to the maximum extent possible. This paper
describes our current information gathering and processing techniques,
as well as our future plans for integrating the manual and automated
approaches. The NHSE home page is accessible at
http://www.netlib.org/nse/.