Evaluation of high-performance computing software

The absence of unbiased and up to date comparative evaluations of high-performance computing software complicates a user`s search for the appropriate software package. The National HPCC Software Exchange (NHSE) is attacking this problem using an approach that includes independent evaluations of software, incorporation of author and user feedback into the evaluations, and Web access to the evaluations. We are applying this approach to the Parallel Tools Library (PTLIB), a new software repository for parallel systems software and tools, and HPC-Netlib, a high performance branch of the Netlib mathematical software repository. Updating the evaluations with feed-back and making it available via the Web helps ensure accuracy and timeliness, and using independent reviewers produces unbiased comparative evaluations difficult to find elsewhere

Providing Access to High Performance Computing Technologies

. This paper describes two projects underway to provide users with access to high performance computing technologies. One effort, the National HPCC Software Exchange, is providing a single point of entry to a distributed collection of domain-specific repositories. These repositories collect, catalog, evaluate, and provide access to software in their specialized domains. The NHSE infrastructure allows these repositories to interoperate with each other and with the top-level NHSE interface. Another effort is the NetSolve project which is a client-server application designed to solve computational science problems over a network. Users may access NetSolve computational servers through C, Fortran, MATLAB, or World Wide Web interfaces. An interesting intersection between the two projects would be the use of the NetSolve system by a domain-specific repository to provide access to software without the need for users to download and install the software on their own systems. 1 The National HPC..

Providing Access to High Performance Computing Technologies

Abstract. This paper describes two projects underway toprovide users with access to high performance computing technologies. One e ort, the National HPCC Software Exchange, is providing a single point ofentry to a distributed collection of domain-speci c repositories. These repositories collect, catalog, evaluate, and provide access to software in their specialized domains. The NHSE infrastructure allows these repositories to interoperate with each other and with the top-level NHSE interface. Another e ort is the NetSolve project which is a client-server application designed to solve computational science problems over a network. Users may access NetSolve computational servers through C, Fortran, MATLAB, or World Wide Web interfaces. An interesting intersection between the two projects would be the use of the NetSolve system by a domain-speci c repository to provide access to software without the need for users to download and install the software on their own systems

Providing Access to High Performance Computing Technologies

This paper describes two projects underway to provide users with access to high performance computing technologies. One eort, the National HPCC Software Exchange, is providing a single point of entry to a distributed collection of domain-specic repositories. These repositories collect, catalog, evaluate, and provide access to software in their specialized domains. The NHSE infrastructure allows these repositories to interoperate with each other and with the top-level NHSE interface. Another eort is the NetSolve project which is a client-server application designed to solve computational science problems over a network. Users may access NetSolve computational servers through C, Fortran, MATLAB, or World Wide Web interfaces. An interesting intersection between the two projects would be the use of the NetSolve system by a domain-specic repository to provide access to software without the need for users to download and install the software on their own systems