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Briefing
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- Six Research Contract Grants – U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) invests $258 million to six leading technology companies as part of PathForward program to accelerate research in developing country's first exascale supercomputer
- PathForward Program – Co-designed by DOE and private industry, featuring cutting-edge memory architectures, high-speed connectivity, and process for increasing computer power capability with only minimal increases in energy demand
- Project Funding – Allocated over three-year period with companies contributing additional funding of up to 40% of total project cost, making total project cost at estimated $430 million
- Companies Involved – Include AMD and NVIDIA that will focus on GPUs, IBM for accelerating cognitive computing, HP for memory-driven computing architecture, CRAY for building highly flexible and upgradable systems, and Intel for high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and data analytics
- Country Race – China expects its exascale prototype to finished by 2017, but will not be operational until 2020
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Information Technology
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Organization
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), Cray Inc., Hewlett-Packard Enterprises LLC, Intel Corp., International Business Machines Corp., Nvidia Corp., U.S. Department of Energy
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Source
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Original Publication Date
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June 15, 2017
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