The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity is seeking proposals for a new supercomputer as the agency seeks to help other agencies address power and cooling requirements of computer systems.Phase one of the Cryogenic Computing Complexity program will have contractors build technologies for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to use during a superconducting computing demonstration, IARPA said in an Aug. 29 FedBizOpps notice.
Interested contractors can propose up to two technical initiatives under that program for the Cryogenic Memory thrust and the Logic, Communications and Systems thrust.
IARPA wants the CM thrust to help develop and test small-scale memories for high performance computers, while the LCS thrust is intended to engineer superconducting logic components for demonstrating the computing systems.
The agency plans to issue a second notice for the C3 program’s second phase, through which contractors will help integrate technologies developed under phase one into a working computer.
