High Productivity Computing Systems


High Productivity Computing Systems is a DARPA project for developing a new generation of economically viable high productivity computing systems for national security and industry in the 2002–10 timeframe.
The HPC Challenge is part of the project. An HPCS goal is to create a multi petaflop systems.

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A vivid description of this type of work was given by James Bamford in his March 15, 2012 article: