SGI, DARPA, Intel to jointly deliver Exascale supercomputer systems

To develop computing systems that offer performance and energy efficiency

SGI, a provider of HPC and data centre offerings, has partnered with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Intel and other industry players to develop a future computing architecture that will overcome the limitations of the current evolutionary approach.

The company said that DARPA's Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program will develop computing systems that will offer performance and energy efficiency to deliver exascale supercomputer systems that meet the demands of advanced computing.

SGI senior vice president and chief technology officer Eng Lim Goh said that SGI is pleased to partner with DARPA and Intel on this program that promises to have far reaching implications for the supercomputing industry.

"To achieve the objectives of the DARPA UHPC program, we need to rethink how we are designing and building supercomputers. We look forward to a collaborative research environment that will result in major advances that redefine our industry," Goh said.

The company said that the future computer system designs must be developed to support new generations of advanced Department of Defense (DoD) systems, which enable new computing application code, programmability and reliability and fulfill the need for greater processing performance.

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