HIGH PRODUCTIVITY, HIGH-PERFORMANCE RESPONSIVE ARCHITECTURES
Abstract
(U) The High Productivity, High-Performance Responsive Architectures project is developing 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; it will include both supercomputer and embedded computing systems. 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 can adjust dynamically to platform and environmental perturbations. The project will ensure accessibility and usability to a wide range of application developers, not just computational science experts. This project is essential for maintaining the nation’s strength in both supercomputer computation for ultra large-scale engineering applications for surveillance and reconnaissance data assimilation and exploitation, and for environmental modeling and prediction. (U) Even as this project develops the next generation of high-productivity, high-performance computing systems, it is looking further into the future to develop the technological and architectural solutions that are required to develop extreme computing systems. The military will demand increasing diversity, quantities, and complexity of sensor and other types of data, both on the battlefield and in command centers - processed in time to effectively impact warfighting decisions. Computing assets must progress dramatically to meet significantly increasing performance and cyber-security, while significantly decreasing power and size requirements. Extreme computing systems will scale to deliver a thousand times the capabilities of future petascale systems using the same power and size or will scale to deliver terascale-embedded systems at one millionth of the size and power of petascale systems, and will do so with greatly enhanced security capabilities.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Project
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2011
- Source ID
- IT-02_0602303E_2_0400_PB_2011
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