Previous: National HPCC Software Exchange

Introduction

The National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) is an Internet-accessible resource that will facilitate the exchange of software and information among research and computational scientists involved with High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC). The purpose of the NHSE is to facilitate the development of discipline-oriented software and document repositories and to promote contributions to and use of such repositories by Grand Challenge teams, as well as other members of the high performance computing community.

The target audiences for the NHSE include HPCC application and computer scientists, users of government and academic supercomputer centers, and potential industrial users. The expected benefits from successful deployment of the NHSE include the following:

1. Faster development of better-quality software so that scientists can spend less time writing and debugging programs and more time on research problems.
2. Reduction of duplication of software development effort by sharing of software modules.
3. Reduction of time and effort spent in locating relevant software and information through the use of appropriate indexing and search mechanisms and domain-specific expert help systems.
4. Reduction of the time scientists spend dealing with information overload through the use of filters and automatic search mechanisms.