Milestones

Workflow study and format coverage Thrust 1 · survey the analysis workflows the cyberinfrastructure has to serve, and the data formats they arrive in

Compression-quality targets Thrust 1 · pin the quality metrics each workflow needs, so "good enough" is a number rather than a judgement

Baseline ports Thrust 3 · the existing GPU compressors building and running on NVIDIA, as the reference the other platforms are measured against

Language bindings Thrust 2 · high-level interfaces, so using a GPU compressor does not mean writing GPU code

Command-line interface Thrust 2 · an off-the-shelf tool for the common cases

AMD and Intel back ends Thrust 3 · the portability layer carrying the compressors off NVIDIA-only hardware

Visualization-integrated interface Thrust 2 · the user interface that puts compression next to the analysis it serves

Cross-platform evaluation Thrust 3 · one evaluation across all three vendors, on real application data

Release and hand-off Thrusts 1–3 · documentation, packaging, and the training material the education plan calls for