High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS)

Program Manager: Dr. Charles Holland

Challenges:

• Balanced scalable system architecture
  
  • Processors, memory, interconnects, system software and programming environments
• High effective bandwidth (on/off chip)
  
  • Silicon, CPU, memory, network, and storage
• System robustness or brittleness
  
  • Hardware/software reliability (poor understanding of point failures)
  • Fault recovery or restart
  • Software bug tolerance
• Performance monitoring, measurement and prediction
• System "Design Point" tailorability
  
  • Programming models
  • Virtual machine instantiations
  • Quality of Service
• Measurement of productivity in a way that is applicable across the spectrum of DoD HPC applications

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