National Institute of Standards and 

 Technology (NIST) 



High performance computing and communications technology is an essential enabling com- 

 ponent of NIST's mission to promote U.S. industrial leadership and international competi- 

 tiveness and to provide measurement, calibration, and quality assurance techniques to sup- 

 port U.S. commercial and technological progress. The objectives of NIST's HPCC program 

 are: to accelerate the development and deployment of high performance computing and 

 networking technologies required for the National Information Infrastructure; to apply and 

 test these technologies in a manufacturing environment; and to serve as coordinating agen- 

 cy for the manufacturing component of the Federal Program. 



NIST's MultiKron chip provides low per- 

 turbation measurements for perfor- 

 mance evaluation of computer and com- 

 munication systems. 



Specific goals of NIST's program are: 



3 To apply high performance communications and 

 networking technology to promote improved U.S. 

 product quality and manufacturing performance, to 

 reduce production costs and time-to-market, and 

 to increase competitiveness in international mar- 

 kets. 



-I To promote the development and deployment of 

 advanced communications technology to support 

 the education, research, and manufacturing com- 

 munities and to increase the availability of scientif- 

 ic and engineering data via the National 

 Information Infrastructure. 



jTo advance instrumentation and performance 

 measurement methodologies for high performance 

 computing and networking systems and compo- 

 nents to achieve improved system and application 

 performance. 



QTo develop efficient algorithms and portable, scal- 

 able software for the application of high perfor- 

 mance computing systems to industrial problems, 

 and to develop improved methods for the public 

 dissemination of advanced software and docu- 

 mentation. 



a To support, promote, and coordinate the develop- 

 ment of voluntary standards that provide interoper- 

 ability and common user interfaces amonn sys- 

 tems. 



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