A Collaboration and Commercialization Model for Exascale Software Research

In
the
US,
recent
software
research
and
development
for
petascale
systems
has
been
performed
by
two
 main
entities:
US
Government
funded
R&D
collaborations
(both
at
Universities
and
at
Government
Labs)
 and
Industry
efforts
at
products.

With
few
notable
exceptions,
there
has
been
little
diffusion
of
 technology
from
the
R&D
collaborations
to
industrial
efforts
and
little
feedback
from
the
industrial
 efforts
to
the
US
government
funded
R&D
efforts.

However,
the
broader
community
has
found
value
in
 some
of
the
R&D
efforts
and
would
like
to
see
continued
support.

For
the
most
part,
support
is
 voluntary
by
the
development
groups
because
the
funding
was
only
for
the
R&D,
not
ongoing
support.

 On
the
other
hand,
industry
efforts
end
up
being
funded
for
specific
platforms
and
are
generally
 proprietary
and
suffer
from
the
lack
of
overall
effort
due
limited
private
and
public
investment.

 Understanding
these
lessons
from
petascale
efforts
is
essential
for
forming
a
coherent
strategy
going
 forward
to
exascale.
Clearly,
a
different
research
and
development
and
commercialization
model
is
 desired
going
forward.