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Report<o:p></o:p></span></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'> <p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt; padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in'>Beginning in mid-2007, DARPA/IPTO, contracting through AFRL, has sponsored a series of studies intended to understand the future course of mainstream computing technology and determine whether or not it would allow a 1,000X increase in the computational capabilities of computing systems by the 2015 time frame. Where current technology trends were deemed incapable of achieving such increases, the study was also charged with identifying the major challenges and the areas where additional targeted research could lay the groundwork for overcoming them.<br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![if !supportLineBreakNewLine]><br style='mso-special-character:line-break'> <![endif]></p> </div> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal>The following report of the first Exascale Computing Study has been publicly released.<span style='mso-spacerun:yes'>  </span>Reports of additional exascale computing studies will be made available here as they are also publicly released.</p> <p class=MsoNormal><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="exascale_final_report_100208.pdf" target="_blank">ExaScale Computing Study: Technology Challenges in Achieving Exascale Systems</a> (</span>September 28, 2008)<span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.25in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The material in this document reflects the collective views, ideas, opinions and findings of the study participants only, and not those of any of the universities, corporations, or other institutions with which they are affiliated. Furthermore, the material in this document does not reflect the official views, ideas, opinions and/or findings of DARPA, the Department of Defense, or of the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:country-region w:st="on">United States</st1:country-region></st1:place> government.<o:p></o:p></span></i></p> <p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Book Antiqua","serif"'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo4; tab-stops:list .25in'><![if !supportLists]><span style='font-size:14.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";mso-fareast-font-family:Arial'><span style='mso-list:Ignore'>Ï%<span style='font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></span></span><![endif]><span style='font-size:14.0pt'><a href="ECSS%20report%20101909.pdf" target="_blank">ExaScale Computing Software Study: Software Challenges in Extreme Scale Systems</a> (</span>September 14, 2009)<span style='font-size:14.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:6.0pt;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:6.0pt; margin-left:.25in'><b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'>Approved for Public Release, Distribution Unlimited<o:p></o:p></b></p> <p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.25in'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style: normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>The material in this document reflects the collective views, ideas, opinions and findings of the study participants only, and not those of any of the universities, corporations, or other institutions with which they are affiliated. 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