High Performance Computing Challenge

Deadline: February 15, 1996

In keeping with the SC'96 theme of Computers at Work, the race continues to achieve TERAFLOPS performance. The purpose of this challenge is to solicit a wide range of real-world distributed applications that run the highest possible computational rates. These applications should not only be high performance, but do important work. The goals of the challenge are to:

Approach a teraflop on any configuration
Use the greatest number of heterogeneous platforms at unprecedented speed, or to effectively use the greatest number of nodes in a single platform.

Authors will be notified of acceptance by August 1, 1996.

How To Submit A Proposal to the High Performance Computing Challenge

Proposals must:

identify the application, computing platform(s) and locations, and existing networking resources planned for use.
identify the expected benefits of the application in a practical way.
list all team members and affiliations
indicate the telephone number, fax number, and e-mail address of one contact person.
be no longer than 150 lines of text (1800 words)

Electronic submissions are encouraged; proposals received by fax will not be considered.

AWARDS:

Gold - All verified applications that are at least 90% of the highest performing application.

Silver - All verified applications that are between 80% and 89% of the highest performing application.

Bronze - All verified applications that are between 70% and 79% of the highest performing application.

Special Awards

The highest performing application with at least 10 Gflops performance.
The application that demonstrates widest range of system performance.
The application that uses the most systems.
The application that uses widest range of heterogenicity.
Most data transferred during the application.
Most geographically distributed application (based on longest network distances between nodes).
Special Merit for creative or innovative implementations.

Submit your proposal to:

Bill Kramer
NASA Ames Research Center
MS 258-6
Moffett Field, CA 94035
425-604-4600
kramer@nas.nasa.gov