HPCN TOOLS - A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE

This article describes the findings and analysis following the Europea n Commission-funded survey of High Performance Computing and Netwvorki ng (HPCN) software tools. The study's goal was to ascertain which forc es are shaping the European HPCN software-tool market. The survey used detailed interviews with 25 European tool-development centers to defi ne a model for the European software-tool market. Analysis of the mark et structure indicates that where software tools contain technologies linked to the underlying hardware, the policies of the hardware vendor s are dominant forces. The influence of hardware vendors is less appar ent where the tools are more closely associated with software applicat ions.