National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) Project

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Staff Assigned

• Paul Coddington (funded at 50%)
• Ken Hawick (funded at 50%)
• Nancy McCracken (funded at 40%)
• Roman Markowski (funded at 27%)
• We have about $50K per year for consultants.
• We have money for equipment (Sparc 20 plus disks and tape drive).
• Sung-Hoon Ko, GRA (funded, but not through this project, since there is no money allocated for grad students)
• John Houle, GRA (unfunded)

Milestones and Deliverables

• Presentation on HPCC Roadmap was given at technical/review meeting last month.
• NPAC's NHSE Web pages to be made available on server http://nhse.npac.syr.edu as soon as possible.
• Review articles for cluster computing (Mark Baker) and parallel random numer generators (Paul Coddington) to be published in NHSE Review Journal within next couple of months.
• Roadmap needs to be greatly improved before next review meeting.

Problems and Constraints

• Main problem has been that staff working on this project were overcommitted so very little has actually been done so far. Had funding for > 1.5 staff-years, but amount of effort was probably less than 10% of this (a lot of the content, such as HPCC glossary and Mark's cluster computing review, were done independently of NHSE). This was OK for last month's (friendly) site review, but we will need great improvement by next review meeting, i.e. much more staff time dedicated to this project.
• This is a 5 year project, but funding is on a year-by-year basis and may change from year to year.
• Consultants need to be identified to help write review articles, roadmaps, etc.