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Audience

The intended audience for the NHSE consists of three communities:

1. The HPCC application and computer science community.

   These groups will be major sources of material for the NHSE. Members of the HPCC applications community often need to develop highly optimized components from scratch, and thus generic reusable components may not be as useful to them as to other NHSE users. Higher level artifacts such as design documents, algorithms, and templates may be of use, however. Furthermore, the technique of domain analysis may be used to identify commonalities between applications, and the information thus uncovered can be used to assist the creation of new software systems.

2. Users of NASA, NSF, DOE, and other federal, state, and non-profit supercomputing centers.

   These users may be involved in research, teaching, or industry. They will find libraries of reusable components valuable for providing good, if not optimal, solutions to common computational problems on high performance computing systems. They may also find tools such as parallelizing compilers and code restructurers useful for porting already-developed code to high performance computer systems. Educational users will find a wealth of materials that may be used for course enrichment and project ideas.

3. Current and potential industrial users interested in carrying out technology transfer.

   The NHSE will promote software capitalization by providing access to extensive documentation on research prototypes developed in the academic community. The InfoMall USA technology transfer program developed by the Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University is an example of how such information may be provided and of how partnerships with industry may be formed [3].