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Important Information in IMAGE
This overview of InfoMall covers the Federal HPCC and State Economic Development Rationale updated to December 1994. The NPAC organization is reviewed as well as the current status and prospects for use of HPCC in industry. The InfoMall and National High Performance Software Exchange technology development processes are discussed.

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1 InfoMall --The Virtual Corporation between
Large Corporations, Small Businesses
Academic, State and Federal Organizations
to create and deploy
High Performance Computing and Communications
Software and Systems on the
National Information Infrastructure and in the
Nation's Business enterprises
An Overview
2 Abstract of InfoMall Overview Presentation
3 Performance of Supercomputer Class Computers 1940-2000
4 Advances in Parallel Computer and High Speed Network (HPCC) Technology
5 Educational and (Re)training Challenges
6 We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works !
7 When will Parallel Computing Take Over ?
8 Some Hardware/Software Trends over next 5 years
9 The Federal High Performance Computing and Communication Initiative (HPCCI)
10 39 National Grand Challenges
Chemistry and Biology
11 39 National Grand Challenges
Physics and Computational Fluid Dynamics
12 39 National Grand Challenges
Earth Science
13 Final six of 39 National Grand Challenges
Mainly Space Science
14 Characteristics of Grand Challenges
15 New York State Economic Development Program
16 The Mall Analogy with initial InfoMall members
17 The Mall analogy!
18 NPAC's HPCC Programs
19 NPAC Staff and Associated Academic Units
20 NPAC Parallel Computing Facility (as of 1/3/95)
21 NPAC Networking Infrastructure (as of 1/3/95)
22 Parallel Computing Works!
23 Prospects for use of HPCC in the "Real-World"
24 Prospects for HPCC in Simulation Arena
25 Categories of Industrial and Government Applications of HPCC (with reference to academic applications)
26 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 1 to 4:SIMULATION
27 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 5 to 8: SIMULATION
28 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 9 to 13: SIMULATION
29 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications
14 to 18
Information Analysis -- "DataMining"
30 Table of Industrial Applications 19 to 24 for Information Access
InfoVision - Information, Video, Imagery and Simulation on Demand
31 Information Integration Applications 25 to 28
32 Information Integration Applications 29 to 33
33 Abbreviations used in tables of Industrial Applications of HPCC
34 Components of InfoMall
35 Relation of InfoMall to Other HPCC Organizations
36 The InfoMall Technology Development Process
37 Comparison of InfoMall and Traditional Technology Transfer Model
38 What are HPCC (Parallel Computing) Enabling Technologies
39 Transition of Research to Users and Industry via Enabling Technologies
40 What does HPCC small software systems business need?
41 Some HPCC Software Small Business Activities in INFOMALL
42 Enabling Technology Activities in NHSE (National High Performance Software Exchange)
43 Some Training and Outreach Activities in INFOMALL and NHSE

This table of Contents Abstract

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Foil 1 InfoMall --The Virtual Corporation between
Large Corporations, Small Businesses
Academic, State and Federal Organizations
to create and deploy
High Performance Computing and Communications
Software and Systems on the
National Information Infrastructure and in the
Nation's Business enterprises
An Overview

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 30
Geoffrey C Fox
Syracuse University
NPAC
111 College Place
Syracuse NY 13244-4100
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Foil 2 Abstract of InfoMall Overview Presentation

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 33
This overview of InfoMall covers the Federal HPCC and State Economic Development Rationale updated to December 1994. The NPAC organization is reviewed as well as the current status and prospects for use of HPCC in industry. The InfoMall and National High Performance Software Exchange technology development processes are discussed.
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Foil 3 Performance of Supercomputer Class Computers 1940-2000

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 53
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Foil 4 Advances in Parallel Computer and High Speed Network (HPCC) Technology

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Performance of both communication networks and computers will increase by a factor of 1000 during the 1990's
  • New uses of Computers to design new drugs, search terabyte databases etc.
  • National Information Infrastructure will see pervasive deployment of upgraded Internet to give megagabit/second interactive links to homes and offices allowing interactive realtime video.
  • Greater utility of computers in "Old Applications"
Competitive advantage to industries that can use either or both High Performance Computers and Communication Networks. (United States clearly ahead of Japan and Europe in these technologies.)
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Foil 5 Educational and (Re)training Challenges

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * See also color IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 72
Computation joins theory and experiment as the three complementary approachs to study of science and engineering
Current industries such as Media and Telecommunications which have been dominated by analog technologies will need to adjust to growing use of digital (computer) technologies
Need for new educational approachs such as Computational Science centered on interdiciplinary border between computer science and applications with both a
  • Science and Engineering and
  • Information (Communications ) Track
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Foil 6 We have learnt that Parallel Computing Works !

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 50
Data Parallelism - universal form of scaling parallelism
Functional Parallelism - Important but typically modest speedup. - Critical in multidisciplinary applications.
On any machine architecture
  • Distributed Memory MIMD
  • Distributed Memory SIMD
  • Shared memory - this affects programming model
  • This affects generality
  • SIMD ~ 50% academic problems
  • but < 50% commercial
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Foil 7 When will Parallel Computing Take Over ?

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 72
Switch from conventional to new types of technology is a phase transition
Needs headroom (Carver Mead) which is large (factor of 10 ?) due to large new software investment
Machines such as the nCUBE-1 and CM-2 were comparable in cost performance to conventional supercomputers
  • Enough to show that "Parallel Computing Works"
  • Not enough to take over!
Cray T3D, Intel Paragon, CM-5, DECmpp (Maspar MP-2), IBM SP-2, nCUBE-3 have enough headroom to take over from traditional computers ?
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Foil 8 Some Hardware/Software Trends over next 5 years

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * See also color IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 76
ATM networks have rapidly transitioned from research Gigabit networks to commercial deployment
  • ATM likely to be a major force in local area as well as wide area networks
Computer Hardware trends imply that all computers (PC's ---> Supercomputers) will be parallel by the year 2000
  • Up to 1993, parallel computers are from small start-up companies (except Intel Supercomputer Division)
  • Now Cray, Convex (HP), Digital, IBM have massively parallel computing systems and Silicon Graphics is becoming a powerful high performance computing vendor
  • Several architectures but only one : Distributed memory MIMD multicomputer is known to scale from one to very many processors
Software is challenge and could prevent/delay hardware trend that suggests parallelism will be a mainline computer architecture
  • We must get systems software correct
  • Simultaneously develop applications software in gradually improving parallel programming environment
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Foil 9 The Federal High Performance Computing and Communication Initiative (HPCCI)

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * See also color IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 51
Originally $2.9 billion over 5 years starting in 1992 and
  • Rapidly growing Information technology component starting in 1994 and total budget now over $1 billion per year
The Grand Challenges
  • Enabled by teraflop computers and important to economy or fundamental research
    • Global warming - NOAA
    • Oil reservoir and environmental simulation - DOE
    • Structural and aerodynamic calculations - NASA
    • Earth observing satellite - data analysis - NASA
    • Human genome - NIH, DOE
    • Quantum chromodynamics - Fundamental Physics
    • Gravitational waves from black holes - Fundamental Physics
    • Molecular modeling - Fundamental Chemistry
Nearly all grand challenges have industrial payoff but technology transfer NOT funded by HPCCI
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Foil 10 39 National Grand Challenges
Chemistry and Biology

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 67
4 Chemistry (--> Biochemistry) Grand Challenges
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Foil 11 39 National Grand Challenges
Physics and Computational Fluid Dynamics

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 51
6 Physics Grand Challenges
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Foil 12 39 National Grand Challenges
Earth Science

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 72
5 Environmental Grand Challenges
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Foil 13 Final six of 39 National Grand Challenges
Mainly Space Science

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 48
5 Space Science and Astronomy Grand Challenges
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Foil 14 Characteristics of Grand Challenges

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
Full HTML Index Secs 48
Partial Differential Equations
Particle Dynamics and Multidisciplinary Integration
Image Processing
Some:
Visualization
Artificial Intelligence
Not Much:
Network Simulation
Economic (and other complex system) modeling
Scheduling
Manufacturing
Education
Entertainment
Information Processing
BMC3IS (Command & Control in military war)
Decision Support in global economic war
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Foil 15 New York State Economic Development Program

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
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High Performance Computing & Communication (HPCC) is a rapidly advancing technology, which influences many economic sectors and high technology areas. The development of HPCC provides opportunities for creating new industry and offers existing industries a competitive advantage. INFOMALL is a resource for New York State centered on introducing and integrating HPCC into the state's Industry. As new types of computers, specifically, parallel processors, are key to HPCC, new approaches involving collaboration between computer users and developers and industry and academia are essential. To foster this collaboration, INFOMALL has six major components:
  • Create HPCC Software Industry
  • Development of industrial applications on parallel machines
  • Education and technology transfer with new courses,conferences, and workshops
  • Industrial access to the latest parallel machines
  • In-depth analysis and survey of areas where parallel computing can be most effective
  • Development of a methodology for integrating HPCC into New York State industry and establishing an expert team to perform this integration with industry.
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Foil 16 The Mall Analogy with initial InfoMall members

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Foil 17 The Mall analogy!

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Foil 18 NPAC's HPCC Programs

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Foil 19 NPAC Staff and Associated Academic Units

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Critical Information in IMAGE
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Geoffrey Fox - Director
Denny Eaton - InfoMall MidHudson
Steve Warzala -- Manager InfoMall
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Foil 20 NPAC Parallel Computing Facility (as of 1/3/95)

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Foil 21 NPAC Networking Infrastructure (as of 1/3/95)

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Foil 22 Parallel Computing Works!

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
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What have we learnt ?
  • Essentially all large problems parallelize in principle
    • Written from scratch by an expert but
    • Very Hard if need to Port existing codes from ill-documented Fortran or C++
  • See "Parallel Computing Works" Morgan Kaufman, 1994.
Experience dominated by academic and research applications as opposed to real = "industry and government" problems
  • Technology (ARPA) will give us (experimental) teraflop (1012 operations per second) machine by 1995; production teraflop machine by 2000.
  • Several hardware architectures "work"
  • Software lagging behind hardware and parallel algorithms
    • Need productive (easy to use) portable (runs on all current machines) scalable ( will run on future parallel machines ) software.
    • e.g. High Performance Fortran addresses these goals.
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Foil 23 Prospects for use of HPCC in the "Real-World"

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
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In simulation arena, HPCC will work in principle but the need to develop or port large complex codes represents a serious handicap (see next foil) which for instance could hold up the "obvious" use of HPCC in Manufacturing by 10 to 20 years
In High Speed Network arena, most applications such as "video-on-demand" are "new" and so HPCC competes much more favorably with traditional computer technology.
In database arena, we can also expect quicker adoption of HPCC than for silmulation
  • Information processing is largest use of computers and so easier to justify investment in new technology
  • A parallel (relational) database is complicated to develop but only has to be done once -- SQL is naturally parallel (unlike Fortran) and so applications can be developed without knowledge of underlying hardware.
  • On the other hand, a parallel Fortran compiler is also very complex but STILL EVERY user must code carefully to exploit parallelism and essentially no existing Fortran codes parallelize without further thought.
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Foil 24 Prospects for HPCC in Simulation Arena

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
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Industrial and Government Simulations in "old" areas where computation is well established
  • Are a factor of 10 to 100 larger (up to 106 lines)
    • Have a longer lifetime
    • Less accessible expertise
  • This a problem for both new codes and even more so, for porting of old codes
  • This implies that the parallel hardware must be much better (factor of >ten "headroom" in Carver Mead's model) than sequential competition.
Must have better software to port and maintain large parallel codes -- can only convert once!
  • Are software issues the same for academic and industrial production codes?
  • Probably not? So we need to integrate computer science (software) research and development with experience from industrial codes.
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Foil 25 Categories of Industrial and Government Applications of HPCC (with reference to academic applications)

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * Important Information in IMAGE
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Define information generally to include both CNN headline news and the insights on QCD gotten from lattice gauge theories
Information Production e.g. Simulation
  • Major concentration of MPP and HPCC at present
Information Analysis e.g. Extraction of location of oil from seismic data, Extraction of customer preferences from purchase data
  • Growing area of importance and Short term major MPP opportunity in decision support combined with parallel databases
Information Access and Dissemination - InfoVision e.g. Transaction Processing, Video-On-Demand
  • Enabled by National Information Infrastructure
  • Very promising medium term market for MPP but need the NII
  • to be reasonably pervasive before area "takes off"
Information Integration .
  • Integrates Information Production Analysis and Access e.g.
    • Decision support in business
    • Command and Control for Military
    • Concurrent Engineering and Agile Manufacturing
  • Largest Long Term Market for MPP
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Foil 26 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 1 to 4:SIMULATION

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Foil 27 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 5 to 8: SIMULATION

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Foil 28 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications 9 to 13: SIMULATION

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Foil 29 Tables of Industrial HPCC Applications
14 to 18
Information Analysis -- "DataMining"

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Foil 30 Table of Industrial Applications 19 to 24 for Information Access
InfoVision - Information, Video, Imagery and Simulation on Demand

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Foil 31 Information Integration Applications 25 to 28

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These involve combinations of Information Production, Analysis, Access and Dissemination and thus need the Integration of the various Software and Machines Architecture Issues discussed there
Sometimes Called System of Systems
25: Military and Civilian Command and Control (C2, C3, C4I ....)
  • Battle Management, Command,Control,Communication,Intelligence and Surveillance (BMC3IS)
  • Military Decision Support
  • Crisis Management -- Police and other Government Operations
  • SIMNET simulates this and with people and computers in the loop has many of same issues
26 to 28: Applications of InfoVision Services
  • Generalize Compuserve,Prodigy, America Online, Dialog and Other Information Servives
  • 26: Decision Support for Society
    • Community Information Systems
    • Travel and Generalized Yellow Page Services
  • 27: Business Decision Support -- One example is:
    • Health Care with Image and Video databases supporting telemedicine
  • 28: Public Administration and Political Decision Support
    • Government Information Systems
    • Maxwell School at Syracuse University teachs use of realtime video to aid world wide decisions (United Nations)
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Foil 32 Information Integration Applications 29 to 33

From Overview of InfoMall --1995 Used in General NPAC and InfoMall Presentations -- January to December 1995. * See also color IMAGE
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29: Real-Time Control Systems
  • Robotics uses Imagery to make decisions(control vehicles)
  • Energy Management controls power use and generation
30: Electronic Banking
  • Requires Security, Privacy, Electronic Cash etc.
31: Electronic Shopping
32: Agile Manufacturing -- Multidiscplinary Design and Concurrent Engineering
  • Combines CAD with Applications 1 to 3
  • Requires major changes to Manufacturing Infrastructure and Approach
33: Education
  • InfoMall Living Textbook -- 6 Schools on ATM network linked to HPCC InfoVision Servers at NPAC
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Foil 33 Abbreviations used in tables of Industrial Applications of HPCC

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PDE Partial Differential Equation
FEM Finite Element Method
FD Finite Difference
ED Event Driven Simulation
TS Time Stepped Simulation
CFD Computational Fluid Dynamics
VR Virtual Reality
HPF High Performance Fortran
Adaptive Software for Irregular Loosely Synchronous Problems
    • handled by pC++, HPF extensions, Message Passing
Asynchronous Software for asynchronous problems
(AsyncSoft)
Integration Software to integrate components of metaproblems
Software
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Foil 34 Components of InfoMall

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InfoTech is a program that gathers, evaluates and integrates the best global HPCC research technologies and deposits them into the warehouse InfoWare as RTPs (Reusable Technology Pieces)
InfoTeam represents software teams which are either small businesses or groups inside large corporations. InfoTeam takes RTPs and integrates and develops them into domain specific RAPs (Reusable Application Pieces)
InfoMarket provides the primary link between the software development process (InfoTeam, InfoTech) and the HPCC consumers. This link initially establishes technical and market criteria for commercialization potential. It also performs the commercialization functions ultimately leading to product sales. InfoMarket includes in the INFOMALL partnership both marketing arms of HPCC vendors but also other market organizations with unique consumer relationships. This includes computer services (outsourcing), consulting and system integration companies.
The remaining INFOMALL stores provide essential services and infrastructure needed to implement the above process. This includes InfoSchool which offers training, education and consulting to all customers; HPCC facilities on which to develop, test and deploy software products; economic development and other support for small businesses
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Foil 35 Relation of InfoMall to Other HPCC Organizations

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Foil 36 The InfoMall Technology Development Process

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Foil 37 Comparison of InfoMall and Traditional Technology Transfer Model

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Foil 38 What are HPCC (Parallel Computing) Enabling Technologies

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Note: Parallel Computing and HPCC synonymous
  • Parallel Computing not necessarily MPP !
These are either the components needed to build applications or the components of the sophisticated system software needed to support or build HPCC applications on parallel machines
  • Hardware assumed to come from computer vendors
  • Software
  • Algorithms
  • Methodology
Enabling Technologies particularly relevant for InfoMall (and CRPC or NPAC) as development needs substantial computer science expertise, and major interdisciplinary collaborations
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Foil 39 Transition of Research to Users and Industry via Enabling Technologies

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Foil 40 What does HPCC small software systems business need?

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Conventional start-up assistance
  • Incubator space
  • Marketing and administrative help
  • Tax breaks ...
Funding
  • Venture and other private capital
  • SBIR Grants
  • Other Federal Grants
Enabling Technologies
  • Technologies needed for specific product
  • Technologies/Interfaces used in other products
  • with which this must integrate
Access to HPCC facilities
  • Distributed workstations
  • High speed networks
  • Central state of the art parallel computers
  • Visualization support
Support for Virtual Corporation of several small companies
  • Distributed Collaboration Technologies
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Foil 41 Some HPCC Software Small Business Activities in INFOMALL

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Supply technologies to (small) businesses in software systems area
  • Metrics, requirements
  • Ensure products can be integrated together
  • Resource material
  • Facilities for test and development
  • Team in SBIR and other proposals
  • Feed back products from this activity into other participants in software systems virtual corporation
Feed lessons back to national community
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Foil 42 Enabling Technology Activities in NHSE (National High Performance Software Exchange)

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Gather and classify available candidate and enabling technologies grouped by functionality
Gather and classify requirements for technologies by application area.
Match technologies with applicatio
Evaluate, Develop, Modify, Integrate particular enabling/candidate technologies.
  • Look at broad application requirements and prototype implementations on focused application test set (Grand Challenges, INFOMALL pilot projects and others
  • Develop and maintain metrics and benchmarks for systematic evaluation
  • Promote / Develop open interfaces for component technologies to allow integration
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Foil 43 Some Training and Outreach Activities in INFOMALL and NHSE

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Develop Resource Material
  • Training courses for users, developers, and teachers in academia, industry
    • High Value "Teach the Teachers" Extension services and universities will do broad based training
    • Initial textbooks and curricula
  • Background material in both hardcopy and hypertext electronic form Ñ delivered by NSE
  • Reports Ñ INFOMALL / PCETech / NSE Technology Evaluation Series Ñ Overview on what a particular class of user should do Ñ Road map
Supply technologies/lessons from technologies to national computer science research community, users (and those that support them) in academia and industry
Northeast Parallel Architectures Center, Syracuse University, npac@npac.syr.edu

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