High Productivity Computing Systems

High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) is a DARPA project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2002–10 timeframe; an extenuated research specialization that's from High-Performance Computing Systems.

The HPC Challenge (High-performance computers challenge) is part of the project. An HPCS goal is to create a multi petaflop systems.

Participants

• at phase I, II and III
  • IBM with PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System) based on POWER7 processor, X10, AIX and Linux operating systems and General Parallel File System
  • Cray with Cascade, Chapel and Lustre filesystem
• at phase I and II
  • Sun Microsystems with proximity communication and research projects of silicon photonics, object-based storage, the Fortress programming language, interval computing
  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• at phase I only
  • HP
  • Silicon Graphics (SGI)
  • MITRE

Also (status unknown from official site):

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory

A vivid description of this type of work was given by James Bamford in his March 15, 2012 article:

See also

• Exascale computing program
• Multiprogram Research Facility

External links

• HPC Challenge
• Last valid Waybackmachine cache of DARPA site's section about HPCS
• DARPA Selects Cray and IBM for Final Phase of HPCS