HPCS Application Analysis and Assessment

Abstract

The value of a HPC system to a user includes many factors, such as: execution time on a particular problem, software development time, and both direct and indirect costs. The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems is focused on providing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for the national security and industrial user community in the 2007-2010 timeframe. The goal is to provide systems that double in productivity (or value) every 18 months. This program has initiated a fundamental reassessment of how we define and measure performance, programmability, portability, robustness and ultimately productivity in the HPC domain. This talk will describe the HPCS efforts to develop a productivity assessment framework (see Figure 1), characterize HPC user workflows, and define the scope of the target applications.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 23, 2003
Accession Number
ADA428412

Entities

People

  • David Koester
  • Jeremy Kepner

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Computational Biology
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Department Of Defense
  • Language
  • Models
  • Procurement
  • Production
  • Productivity
  • Prototypes
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Testing
  • Standards
  • Systems Biology
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Distributed Systems and Data Platform Development
  • Systems Analysis and Design