The DARPA High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) Program and HPCWire are pleased to announce the second annual HPC Challenge Award Competition.
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IBM has dominated the first annual HPC Challenge Competition at the Supercomputing 2005 Conference. The DOE/NNSA/LLNL team, using IBM's Blue Gene/L system, swept all four Class 1 benchmark awards. The IBM team tied with the Cray team for the Class 2 "elegant" implemention award.
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In the 17th year of SC, he is serving as the co-chair for the first year of the HPC Challenge award competition, the results of which are being revealed today. The goal of the competition, which is sponsored by DARPA's High Productivity Computing Systems Program and HPCwire, is to develop a set of HPC hardware and software capabilities that become de rigeur for the productive use of all HPC systems.
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The deadline is approaching for the HPC Challenge Class 2 competition. It is considered the most "elegant" implementation of two or more of the HPC Challenge benchmarks with special emphasis being placed on Global HPL, Global RandomAccess, EP STREAM (Triad) per system and Global FFT.
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HPCwire recently spoke with Marie-Christine Sawley, director of the Swiss National Supercomputing Center (CSCS), about its use of the relatively new HPC Challenge benchmark for recent large-scale supercomputer procurement. Although HPCwire expects the U.S. government to begin using the HPC Challenge in procurements soon, CSCS may be the world's first major site to do this.
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