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Towards a Unified Requirements Model for Distributed High Performance Computing

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High Performance Computing (HPC) consists in development and execution of sophisticated computation applications, developed by highly skilled IT personnel. Several past studies report significant problems with applying HPC in industry practice. This is caused by lack of necessary IT skills in developing highly parallelised and distributed computation software. This calls for new methods to reduce software development effort when constructing new computation applications. In this paper we propose a generic requirements model consisting of a conceptual domain specification, unified domain vocabulary and use-case-based functional requirements. Vocabulary definition provides detailed clarifications of HPC fundamental component elements and their role in the system. Further we address security issues by providing transparency principles for HPC. We also propose a research agenda that leads to the creation of a model-based software development system dedicated to building Distributed HPC applications at a high level of abstraction, with the object of making HPC more available for smaller institutions.

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This work is partially funded from the European Regional Development Fund, Interreg Baltic Sea Region programme, project BalticLSC #R075.

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    Michał Śmiałek, Kamil Rybiński, Radosław Roszczyk & Krzysztof Marek

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Śmiałek, M., Rybiński, K., Roszczyk, R., Marek, K. (2020). Towards a Unified Requirements Model for Distributed High Performance Computing. In: Poniszewska-Marańda, A., Kryvinska, N., Jarząbek, S., Madeyski, L. (eds) Data-Centric Business and Applications. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 40. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34706-2_1

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