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

References

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