AGILE – Advanced Graphic Intelligence Logical Computing Environment
Intelligence Value
The AGILE program seeks innovative, energy-efficient, and reliable computer architectures that can address the Intelligence Community’s large-scale data-analytic applications, as well as other classes of data intensive applications. AGILE offers the potential to enable a predictive analysis of massive data from diverse sources and methods, not just forensic analysis after the event has occurred.
Summary
The fundamental problem with current computer architectures is their inefficiency at operating on sparse, time-varying data that is randomly distributed across the system. The AGILE program seeks to solve this problem by developing new system-level intelligent mechanisms for accessing, moving, and storing complex data streams and structures that enable efficient data-analytic algorithms.
New architectures developed under the AGILE program will be driven by representative data-intensive applications through the co-design process. Co-design is a process for designing computer systems whereby the application requirements influence architecture decisions, and the architecture affects the design of the applications. AGILE system designs must emphasize optimization of the fully integrated system rather than independent optimization of individual functionalities (e.g., memory, computation, or communication), and must not be constrained by existing component interfaces and protocols, legacy architectures, or current practices.
A fundamental rethinking of computer architectures that can revitalize performance growth trends in computing capabilities is long overdue. Currently, there is a renewed interest in developing specialized hardware components. However, this approach will not resolve the fundamental data movement challenges that restrict the historical performance growth trends. The AGILE program will seed a new generation of computers with unprecedented pathways for continuing performance gains for the IC.
The AGILE BAA was released in November 2021 and the program is slated to run for three years.
BAA Information
Press Releases
Technical Details for Proposers
Description of the four workflows and their derived kernels are detailed in the AGILE Program Workflows Document.
Performer will be responsible for providing models of their designs using design-tool-neutral modeling or hardware description artifacts that are integrated with A-SST (SystemC, C/C++, SST, Verilog, or System Verilog). The description of AGILE extensions to SST are detailed in the A-SST Documentation.
The AGILE BAA refers toFireSim, a cycle-accurate, FPGA-accelerated scale-out computer system simulation platform that may be used by performers. Description of the FireSim environment is detailed in this FireSim Documentation.
A baseline system will be used by the T&E to establish the baseline performance of the AGILE application suite. The baseline system will also be used to evaluate the performers’ implementations of the AGILE applications suite. Description of the baseline system is detailed in this Baseline Computer System.
Program Execution Information
Press Releases
IARPA and U.S. Army Launch Research to Engineer Next Generation of Computers
Reports and Publications
Presentations, Speeches, and Interviews
ISC High Performance 2022 Presentation
AGILE Modelling and Simulation
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
AGILE FAQs
Questions and Answers (Q&A)
AGILE Q&A
Proposers’ Day Briefings
Contact Information
Program Manager
Dr. William Harrod
301-243-1814
Research Area(s)
Computer architecture, Data analytics, Co-Design, Data movement, Modeling and simulation
Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Link(s) to BAA
Solicitation Status
CLOSED
Proposers’ Day Date
December 22, 2020
BAA Release Date
November 29, 2021
Proposal Due Date
January 24, 2022
Program Summary
Testing and Evaluation Partners
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
- Sandia National Laboratory
- Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Prime Performers
- Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Intel Federal LLC
- The Trustees of Indiana University
- Qualcomm Intelligent Solutions, Inc.
- The University of Chicago
Additional Information
Questions
All questions received were considered and the ones that we are answering in the AGILE Q&A have been re-stated in order to generalize them for broad public consumption.
Administrative, technical, or contractual questions:
Email dni-iarpa-AGILE-BAA-2021@iarpa.gov
Registration process, system requirements, application form, or submittal process questions:
Use https://www.grants.gov/web/grants/support.html or call Grants.gov at 1-800-518-4726