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Aug. 9, 2010, 1:19 p.m. EDT · Recommend · Post:
NVIDIA-Led Team Receives $25 Million Contract From
DARPA to Develop High-Performance GPU Computing
Systems
NVIDIA Team Includes Cray, Oak Ridge National Labs, Six Top U.S. Universities
SANTA CLARA, CA, Aug 09, 2010 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A team led by NVIDIA
has been awarded a research grant of $25 million by the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency (DARPA), the U.S. Defense Department's research and development arm,
to address what the agency calls a "crisis in computing."
The four-year research contract, awarded under DARPA's Ubiquitous High Performance
Computing (UHPC ) program, covers work to develop GPU technologies required to build
the new class of exascale supercomputers which will be 1,000-times more powerful than
today's fastest supercomputers.
The team -- which also includes Cray Inc., Oak Ridge National Laboratory and six top U.S.
universities -- is being funded by DARPA to address the challenge that conventional
computing architectures are reaching the practical limits of energy usage and will not meet
the challenges of exascale computing. The research team plans to develop new software
and hardware technology to dramatically increase computing performance, programmability
and reliability.
"This recognizes NVIDIA's substantial investments in the field of parallel processing and
highlights GPU Computing's position as one of the most promising paths to exascale
computing," said Bill Dally, NVIDIA's chief scientist and senior vice president of research,
and the team's principal investigator. "We look forward to collaborating to develop
programmable, scalable systems that operate in tight power budgets and deliver increases
in performances that are many orders of magnitude above today's systems."
"The DARPA UHPC program is attacking technical issues that are key to the future of high
performance computing, from the embedded terascale to the exascale," said Steve Scott,
Cray's senior vice president and CTO, and the Cray principal investigator on the team. "We
are excited to be working with this team, and we believe the directions we are pursuing will
lead to radical improvements to the state-of-the-art in the coming decade."
In addition to the NVIDIA-led team, DARPA awarded contracts to three other teams to study
UHPC systems. Prototype systems are expected to be completed by 2018.
The names of those universities on the NVIDIA team will be available once details with them
have been finalized. For more information on the DARPA UHPC program, please go here.
About NVIDIA NVIDIA (NVDA 9.64, +0.09, +0.94%) awakened the world to the power of
computer graphics when it invented the GPU in 1999. Since then, it has consistently set new
standards in visual computing with breathtaking, interactive graphics available on devices
ranging from tablets and portable media players to notebooks and workstations. NVIDIA's
expertise in programmable GPUs has led to breakthroughs in parallel processing which
make supercomputing inexpensive and widely accessible. The company holds more than
1,100 U.S. patents, including ones covering designs and insights which are fundamental to
modern computing. For more information, see www.nvidia.com.
Certain statements in this press release including, but not limited to, statements as to the
benefits of GPU computing are forward-looking statements that are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause results to be materially different than expectations. Important
factors that could cause actual results to differ materially include: development of more
efficient or faster technology; design, manufacturing or software defects; the impact of
technological development and competition; changes in consumer preferences and
demands; customer adoption of different standards or our competitor's products; changes in
industry standards and interfaces; unexpected loss of performance of our products or
technologies when integrated into systems as well as other factors detailed from time to time
in the reports NVIDIA files with the Securities and Exchange Commission including its Form
10-Q for the fiscal period ended May 2, 2010. Copies of reports filed with the SEC are
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