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High Productivity Computing
IPTO is developing the high-productivity, high-performance computer hardware and the associated software technology base required to support future critical national security needs for computationally-intensive and data-intensive applications. These technologies will lead to new multi-generation product lines of commercially viable, sustainable computing systems for a broad spectrum of scientific and engineering applications, including both supercomputer and embedded computing. The goal is to ensure accessibility and usability of high end computing to a wide range of application developers, not just computational science experts. This is essential for maintaining the nation's strength in supercomputing both for ultra large-scale engineering applications and for surveillance and reconnaissance data assimilation and exploitation. One of the major challenges currently facing the DoD is the prohibitively high cost, time, and expertise required to build large complex software systems. Powerful new approaches and tools are needed to enable the rapid and efficient production of new software, including software that can be easily changed to address new requirements and to platform and environmental perturbations. Computing capabilities must progress dramatically if U.S. forces are to exploit an ever-increasing diversity, quantity, and complexity of sensor and other types of data. Doing so both in command centers and on the battlefield will require significantly increasing performance and significantly decreasing power and size requirements.
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