DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), based in the United States, has granted NVIDIA $25 million to build a supercomputer. This institution, under the banner of the U.S’ Defense Department has agreed to have a four years research contract with NVIDIA. With such amount of modal, NVIDIA is hoped to develop GPU computing system with best performance.
The project rooted from DARPA is officially named the DARPA Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program. Taken from DARPA’s press release, it is found out that NVIDIA is not the only computer manufacturer DARPA is working with. Other than NVIDIA, DARPA also cooperates with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Cray Inc., as well as other six established universities around the United States. In the future, this supercomputer project is expected to develop computers with high-performance system to overcome the what-so-called the computing crisis nowadays.
This DARPA project led by NVIDIA is expected to finish its prototype by 2018. And again, from DARPA press release, this supercomputer is calculated to have the features which is 1000 times better than today’s fastest computers. The project is among others aimed at developing the computer’s performances, programs, and its reliability. In the future, when the program has ended and its results have been released, DARPA surely will undoubtedly have the most sophisticated computer of its era.
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