Workshop on Software Tools for HPC Systems

In October 1996, we organized the sixth in a series of workshops on software tools for high-performance computing. With funding from the Department of Energy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the National Science Foundation, and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the goal of this workshop was to explore the feasibility of creating a national software tool testing and evaluation center. The workshop and its theme were motivated by a growing realization that the small size of the high-performance computing market and the rapid pace of technological change have rendered traditional mechanisms for software technology transfer ineffective.