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back to article Cray strides past another $12m DARPA milestone

Supercomputer maker Cray has passed another milestone in its research and development effort for the "Cascade" massively parallel supercomputers it is developing for the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency. In an 8K filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Cray said that it has taken the next step toward …

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  1. woman-who-knows
    WTF?

    Tim, get the facts

    PERCS is NOT a software project, it is hardware and software. Check out

    http://www.darpa.mil/Our_Work/I2O/Programs/High_Productivity_Computing_Systems_%28HPCS%29.aspx

    and http://www.ncsa.illinois.edu/BlueWaters/percs.html which, BTW, states:

    The Blue Waters sustained-petascale computing system is based on the most advanced technologies under development at IBM, including an advanced processor and memory subsystem, a new interconnect, parallel file system, operating system, programming environment, and system administration tools. These technologies are embodied in the PERCS system design (Productive, Easy-to-use, Reliable Computing System).

    Blue Waters is supported by the National Science Foundation. It leverages the investment made by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program, which is supporting the development of PERCS. Blue Waters will be the first production deployment of PERCS technologies, 100 times more powerful than today's general purpose supercomputers but dramatically simpler to use.

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