IBM & Cray snag contract.(COMPUTING)

Nearly half a billion dollars has been awarded to computing giants IBM, Armonk, N.Y., and Cray, Seattle, Wash., for the development of supercomputers for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA), High Productivity Computing Systems (HPCS) program. Now in its third phase, this program will call for Big Blue and Cray to create petascale supercomputers, which will aim to provide nearly 100 times the sustained performance of today's general purpose supercomputers. Ultimately, the aim of the H PCS is to provide systems capable of running more than two to four petaFLOPS, which translates into more than two to four quadrillion floating point operations/sec.

Cray's contract will help fund its Cascade program, a new hybrid system that combines multiple...

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