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
- 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):
A vivid description of this type of work was given by James Bamford in his March 15, 2012 article:
what you see here, what you do here, what you hear here, when you leave here, let it stay here. Today, not far from where that sign stood, Oak Ridge is home to the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and it's engaged in a new secret war. But this time, instead of a bomb of almost unimaginable power, the weapon is a computer of almost unimaginable speed.— James Bamford, The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center[2]
See also
References
- ↑ DARPA Selects IBM for Supercomputing Grand Challenge
- ↑ Bamford, James (March 15, 2012). "The NSA Is Building the Country's Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)". Wired. Archived from the original on April 4, 2012. Retrieved December 13, 2025.