Above: The logo of IBM is seen on a computer screen in Los Angeles, California, United States, April 22, 2016.
The Department of Energy has awarded six grants totaling $258 million for research on the Exascale Computing Project (ECP).
The mission of the ECP is to deliver at least one exascale-capable system by 2021.
Such a system would be able to execute one exaflop, a billion billion calculations per second. U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry made the announcement.IBM, one of the winners, said that its vision for exascale computing is predicated on a shift from purely compute-centric models to ones that are more data-centric. Other winners include Advanced Micro Devices, Cray, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Intel, and Nvidia.
Further, IBM believes that major technical challenges to successful exascale system design (e.g. power efficiency, reliability, scalability, programmability) must be addressed in the context of a full system design that is driven by the requirements of actual and complete workflows. IBM said that in order to be affordable and sustainable, any exascale effort must be tied to viable commercial systems products.
The grants are part of the Energy Department’s new PathForward program, accelerating the research necessary to deploy the nation’s first exascale supercomputers….
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