The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is in the midst of pushing the supercomputing boundaries to new extremes, hoping to develop systems that will be smarter, faster, smaller and require much less power. DARPA's Information Processing Techniques Office has issued a request for information on a proposed program to guide and fund development of such systems.

Yes, it's futuristic, but isn't that what DARPA is all about? The tentative name is the Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program.

"The UHPC program is seeking solutions that will explore the technologies and architectures required to enable the development of
revolutionary computing architectures and systems and overcome 'business as usual' advances," the RFI states. "This can only be
achieved via dedicated investment, hardware/software co-design, integrated design techniques and continuous innovation."

For more on supercomputers:
- see this defensesystems.com article [1]