Scalable structuration exploitation

Scalability implies an ability to use the very resources that generate services in the present as platforms for future growth. Using terminology offered by March (1991), scalability represents structures and processes wherein exploration occurs as a byproduct of exploitation. Thereby, it reduces considerably the costs that a firm incurs in reconciling once separated forces for exploration with exploitation (Christensen Raynor, 2003 Thompson, 1967). Indeed, in dynamic environments, the flexibility, speed, and scope of operations required of a firm can be accomplished only if a balance can be generated between exploration and exploitation (Brown Eisenhardt, 1998 March, 1991 Tushman, Smith, Wood, Westerman, O Reilly, 2004). 

Furthermore, hardware like multiprocessor workstations, which provide near-supercomputer performance within the UPSM programming model, are becoming available from several vendors (see chapter appendix). These machines are capable of exploiting the shared-memory parallelism that is already represented in code libraries such as LAPACK. Another important positive sign is that issues of scalable library construction have become more visible—for example, as an IEEE-sponsored workshop. " Such efforts, combined with the availability of software like ScaLAPACK as seed code, may well serve to crystallize the development of common data layout and program structure conventions. 

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