25-10-2012, 12:40 PM
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.