National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) Project

Project Description
Provide a roadmap to HPCC applications, algorithms, technologies, and software available at the NHSE Web server.
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)
Nancy and Roman are not doing any work on this project.
Hon Yau and Mark Baker are contributing a small portion of their time.
Mark to replace Ken?
Recent Accomplishments

NPAC NHSE Web server http://nhse.npac.syr.edu/ now working.
NPAC NHSE material being migrated from NPAC server to this NHSE server.
John Houle has written some material on computational chemistry and molecular biology for the Roadmap.

Milestones and Deliverables

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 (probably beginning of 97, but internal reviews before then).

Problems and Constraints

Main problem has been that staff working on this project were overcommitted so very little has actually been done so far (this has not changed since last month!).
Amount of staff time available for this project is still much less than amount we are funded for.
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.

Paul Coddington, paulc@npac.syr.edu, Mar 5 1996.