NHPDCC: The National High Performance Distributed Computing Consortium

Author

Briley, W. Roger ; Reese, Donna S. ; Skjellum, Anthony ; Turcotte, Louis H.

Author_Institution

NSF Eng. Res. Center for Comput. Field Simulation, Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

6-8 Oct 1993

Firstpage

2

Lastpage

9

Abstract

This paper discusses the proposed National High Performance Distributed Computing Consortium (NHPDCC), a second-generation high performance computing consortium. NHPDCC will build high performance computing solutions via distributed, heterogeneous machines with diverse, complementary capabilities. Unlike single-machine consortia, NHPDCC will strive to demonstrate practical solutions to current and future “challenge” and “grand-challenge” applications, by utilizing multi-vendor, commercial products, rather than prototypes. Specific software projects to be implemented by the consortium personnel include MPI message-passing standard and related tools, scalable parallel libraries, benchmarks, as well as systems software. Consortium members will benefit through access to both the hardware and software of the consortium. In addition, the synergy generated by interactions among NHPDCC members will be a significant benefit to consortium members

Keywords

distributed processing; societies; MPI message-passing; NHPDCC; National High Performance Distributed Computing Consortium; benchmarks; consortium; high performance computing; multi-vendor; scalable parallel libraries; software projects; Application software; Distributed computing; High performance computing; Personnel; Prototypes; Software libraries; Software prototyping; Software standards; Software tools; System software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Scalable Parallel Libraries Conference, 1993., Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Mississippi State, MS

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4980-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SPLC.1993.365588

Filename

365588