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 2002-2010 timeframe.

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

Participants

• at phase I, II and III
  • 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
• at phase I and II
  • Sun Microsystems with proximity communication and research projects of Silicon Photonics, Object-Based Storage, Fortress programming language, interval computing
  • MIT Lincoln Laboratory
• at phase I only
  • HP
  • SGI
  • MITRE

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