Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2012 19:41:03 +0900
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2012/09/05
"LLNL Takes Lead in Managing the DOE’s FastForward Program"
08.16.2012, insideHPC
http://insidehpc.com/2012/08/16/llnl-takes-lead-in-managing-the-doe%E2%80%99s-fastforward-program/
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先日担当社が確定した (公式プレスリリースは見つかりませんが)、DOE/NNSAの
Extreme-Scale Computing Research and Development
FastForward Request for Proposals
https://asc.llnl.gov/fastforward/
の Statement of Work (プロジェクトの目標、成果物等、役割分担を明記した
文章) を斜め読みしてみました (SOWの TCO紹介は長いので最後にしました)。
はじめにプロジェクトについて (プロジェクト期間は 2年間)
"The FastForward RFP objective is to initiate partnerships with multiple
companies to accelerate the R&D of critical technologies needed
for extreme-scale computing. It is recognized that the broader
computing market will drive innovation in a direction that may not meet
DOE's mission needs"
後で紹介する NVIDIAの Bill Dallyの Blogの方が解りやすい気がするので：
"The two-year contract calls for NVIDIA to conduct research and development
in processor architecture, circuits, memory architecture, high-speed
signaling and programming models to enable an exascale computer at
a reasonable power level. The concept is to use thousands of efficient,
throughput-optimized cores to perform the bulk of the work, with
a handful of latency-optimized cores to perform the residual serial
computation." Bill Dally, NVIDIA
※↑に Storage and I/Oが加わります。
以下の 3領域で RFPを募集してました (2012/05/11締切)
*)Memory
*)Processor
*)Storage and I/O