DARPA redefines extreme supercomputing

The US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing an "ExtremeScale" supercomputer to overcome the "limitations" of current systems.

"Traditionally, computing performance increases have been driven by Moore's Law - doubling the transistors that can be placed on an integrated circuit every two years," the government agency explained in an official statement.

"However, the ability to achieve projected performance gains is limited by significant power consumption, architectural and programming complexity issues."

As such, the goal of DARPA's Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program is to "re-invent computing," with radically new architecture and programming models projected to be 100-1,000 times more energy efficient.

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