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High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS)

Program Manager: Dr. Charles Holland

Mission:

Conduct a focused research and development program that creates a new generation of high productivity computing systems. These computing systems will comprise software tools, architectures, and hardware components. These systems will improve by orders of magnitude the effectiveness of humans and computers in solving the problems in the high performance computing domain.

Create economically viable high productivity computing systems for the national security and industrial user communities. These systems must have the following attributes:

Performance: Improve the computational efficiency and reduce the execution time of critical national security applications.
Programmability: Reduce cost and time of developing HPCS applications.
Portability: Insulate HPCS application software from system specifics.
Robustness: Improve reliability and reduce vulnerability to intentional attacks.