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 2007-2010 timeframe.

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

Participants:

• Sun Microsystems (at phases I and II) with proximity communication and research projects of Silicon Photonics, Object-Based Storage, Fortress programming language, interval computing
• IBM with PERCS (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computer System) based on POWER7 processor, AIX operating system and General Parallel File System
• Cray with Chapel (programming language) and Cascade; Lustre filesystem
• HP (at phase I)
• SGI (at phase I)

• MITRE (at phase I)
• MIT Lincoln Laboratory (at phases I and II )

Also (status unknown from official site):

• Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
• Los Alamos National Laboratory

External links

• High Productivity Computing Systems home
• HPC Challenge
• DARPA site's section about HPCS
• Article about last phase