The NHSE is involved in several efforts to increase the availability of HPCC software to the Internet community. The strategy of the NHSE is to work on several fronts to meet this end. The areas which NHSE has devoted its attention are researching access control and legal issues, simplifying the tasks of software repository creation and maintenance, reviewing available HPCC software, and encouraging the creation of domain specific repositories.
Strategies used by the NHSE to increase the availability of HPCC software are:
- Access Control and Legal Issues - this pr
oject
addresses concerns about access to software that require the
identification and/or authentication of the person who requests
the software. This project also addresses concerns about the legal issues
involved with software transfers (export restrictions, etc).
- Repository in a Box - a toolkit for setting
up software repositories
that can share cataloging information and software files with other repositories ove
r the Internet
- Domain Specific Repositories - repositories
that are created and maintained by experts in their domains (i.e. fields of science
or technology).
- The NHSE HPCC Roadmap - a guide to High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) applications, algorithms, software and enabling te chnologies.
Domain specific repositories are software repositories that are created and maintained by experts in certain fields of science and mathematics. Since domain specific repositories are maintained by experts, the software in those repositories usually have a high level of quality. Below is a listing of HPCC domain specific software repositories. The NHSE also maintains a set of links to other HPCC related repositories that are not necessarily domain specific.
The NHSE has created a toolkit called Repository In a Box to help those who wish to develop a repository do so in a scalable and efficient manner. This toolkit was used to create the domain specific repositories listed below (NOTE: Some of these repositories are not maintained by NHSE staff).
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BenchWeb
- a repository for benchmark information and software
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Chemistry Software and Information Resources (CSIR)
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Computational Chemistry and Materials Science Software Repository
- at the DoD Aeronautical Systems Center
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Grid Generation Software Catalog
- supported by the US Army Corps of Engineers Waterways Experiment Station Major Shared Resource Center
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HPC Netlib
- a high performance mathematical software repository
- GSFC Earth and Space Sciences Project
- JPL Earth and Space Sciences Project
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Parallel Computing Software Repository
- sponsored by the NCSA Enabling Technologies Team for Parallel Computing
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Programming Systems and Tools Software Repository
- at the DoD Aeronautical Systems Center
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Programming Tools and Environments
- sponsored by NSF PACI
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PTLib
- Parallel Tools Library
The NHSE maintains the
which contains software of relevance to the high performance computing community. This catalog is actually a virtual catalog which imports the contents of several domain specific repositories which are listed in the Domain Specific Repositories section above. The catalog is broken down into six major catagories :- Benchmark and Example Programs
- Data Analysis and Visualization
- Distributed Processing Tools
- Numerical Programs and Routines
- Parallel Processing Tools
- Scientific and Engineering Applications