High Productivity Computing Systems
High Productivity Computing Systems 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 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 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
- * MITRE
A vivid description of this type of work was given by James Bamford in his March 15, 2012 article: