Digital Analysis Computing Software Solutions for the Supply Chain

Harmonia addresses challenge area 3 in DARPA Phase I SBIR topic SB092-006, Digital Analysis Computing Software (DACS) Solutions for the Supply Chain: software application distribution solutions. Harmonia is proposing to accelerate a fundamental historical transformation in the way the world does science and engineering through CognitiveCodeBook. We propose the application of cognitive computing in a new way to reduce the barriers of tier 2 and 3 suppliers to use high performance computing and DACS. We seek to transform what is now a slow, human-to-human process of information transfer when writing or using DACS codes to a human-to-machine process. The work is done in partnership with supercomputing centers so that CognitiveCodeBook can be tailored to the needs of developers and users. The state of the art today is for the people involved to (1) take the time locate the necessary information through some combination of people and electronic resources, and (2) manually create the needed configurations to create or use DACS. Our goal is to cut the time for both steps by 50% by letting CognitiveCodeBook synthesize and maintain configurations.