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Coordination Among Agencies 



The paiticipuling agencies cooperate extensively in their efforts toward accomplishing HPCC 

 Program goals, in part through the management vehicles described earlier and through the use of 

 HPCC products from those other agencies wherever feasible. There are many other collaborations, 

 includina: 



o Evaluation of early systems - these systems are procured primarily by NSF. DOE. and NASA: 

 together with NIH, NSA, NOAA. and EPA. they are evaluated for mission-specific computa- 

 tional and information processing applications. 



a DOE and NASA are coordinating testbed development to ensure that a diverse set of computing 

 systems are evaluated. 



^NIST is developing guidelines for measuring system performance, performance measurement 

 tools, and software needed to monitor and improve the performance of advanced computing sys- 

 tems at HPCC-sponsored high performance computing centers. 



-"The gigabit testbeds (described on pages 37-.^9 in the NREN section). 



□ High speed networking experiments - ARPA. NASA, and NSA collaborate. 



Q Network security - ARPA. NSA, NIST. and other agencies collaborate. 



QThe NSF Supercomputer Centers. Other agencies jointly support and use these environments 

 for their own missions and constituencies. One example is the NIH Biomedical Research 

 Technology program in biomedical computing applications. 



QThe Concurrent SuperComputing Consortium (described on page 44 in the ASTA section). 



QThe National Consortium for High Performance Computing established by ARPA in coopera- 

 tion with NSF (described on pages 44-45 in the ASTA section). 



-JThe High Performance Software Sharing Exchange uses ARPA's wide area file system. NASA's 

 distributed access to electronic data, and software repositories from DOE and NIST. These 

 repositories are accessed by the other agencies. 



Q Joint agency workshops (for example, the recent "Workshop and Conference on Grand 

 Challenge Applications and Software Technology"). 



Q Representation on research proposal review panels (for example, DOE uses other agency experts 

 in its Grand Challenge Review Committee). 



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