Electronic distribution and traditional scholarly activities will allow a broad based distribution. We pointed out that extensive use of Java will help maximize the ease of use and dissemination of our products. However we can also identify several special pro-active outreach (technology transfer) functions. First, we will work with DARPA and other funded projects from this BAA to establish connections with key users of our technology. These include commercial and academic designers of new hardware and software systems. We already have the connection with the PetaFlop studies, where Fox and Saltz have been ongoing leading contributors. Another interesting (and perhaps unexpected) area is the HPCC education and training community, as we believe our products will have significant pedagogical value stemming from their high level structure. Here we will target NSF, DoD modernization and DoE ASCI activities. We are well connected with these organizations already. The particular selected applications will directly benefit from our work and this is illustrated by SAIC for ship design, Johns Hopkins for the virtual microscope and the NSF Black Hole collaboration for their simulation.
In a different way, we expect our project will produce and validate a hierarchical machine description that we expect to have great value in other HPCC areas, including the design of extensions to parallel environments such as MPI and HPF.