diff --git a/applications/CMakeLists.txt b/applications/CMakeLists.txt
index ddcf18d40..725d605a0 100644
--- a/applications/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/applications/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -8,3 +8,4 @@ add_subdirectory(join)
 add_subdirectory(isopath)
 add_subdirectory(graphlab)
 add_subdirectory(util)
+add_subdirectory(hpcc)
diff --git a/applications/hpcc/CMakeLists.txt b/applications/hpcc/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..507133341
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/hpcc/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#set(SOURCES main.cpp common.hpp)
+
+	add_grappa_application(hpcc_random_access.exe hpcc_random_access.cpp)
+
diff --git a/applications/hpcc/hpcc_random_access.cpp b/applications/hpcc/hpcc_random_access.cpp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0b7b3f9ad
--- /dev/null
+++ b/applications/hpcc/hpcc_random_access.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+// to run, do something like
+// make -j demo-hpcc_random_access
+// bin/grappa_run --ppn 8 --nnode 12 -- demo-hpcc_random_access.exe 
+
+#include <Grappa.hpp>
+#include <iomanip>
+
+using namespace Grappa;
+
+// define command-line flags (third-party 'gflags' library)
+DEFINE_int64( scale, 20, "table size = 2 ^ scale * sizeof(uint64_t) * number of PEs" );
+DEFINE_int64( iters, 4, "Number of iterations" );
+
+// define custom statistics which are logged by the runtime
+// (here we're not using these features, just printing them ourselves)
+GRAPPA_DEFINE_METRIC( SimpleMetric<double>, gups_runtime, 0.0 );
+GRAPPA_DEFINE_METRIC( SimpleMetric<double>, gups_throughput, 0.0 );
+
+#define POLY 0x0000000000000007ULL
+#define PERIOD 1317624576693539401LL
+
+typedef double time_type;
+std::string print_time(time_type t)
+{
+	std::ostringstream out;
+	out << std::setiosflags(std::ios::fixed) << std::setprecision(2) << t;
+	return out.str();
+}
+
+
+uint64_t N;
+uint64_t HPCC_starts(int64_t n);
+
+Grappa::GlobalCompletionEvent gce;
+
+double run_random_access() {
+	LOG(INFO) << "HPCC RandomAccess" << std::endl;
+	N = (1LL << FLAGS_scale) * cores();
+
+	// create target array that we'll be updating
+	auto hpcc_table = global_alloc<int64_t>(N);
+	Grappa::memset( hpcc_table, 0, N);
+
+	double tstart = walltime();
+
+	on_all_cores([hpcc_table] {
+		N = (1LL << FLAGS_scale) * cores();
+		uint64_t key = HPCC_starts(FLAGS_iters * mycore() * N / cores());
+		for(int k = 0; k < FLAGS_iters; k++)
+			for(uint64_t i = 0; i < N / cores(); i++) {
+				key = key << 1 ^ ((int64_t) key < 0 ? POLY : 0);
+				auto addr = hpcc_table + (key & N - 1);
+				//auto core = key >> (int)log2((double)(N / cores())) & cores() - 1;
+				delegate::call<async, &gce>(addr.core(), [addr, key] {
+					//uint64_t offset = key & (N / cores() - 1);
+					*(addr.pointer()) ^= key;
+				});
+			}
+	});
+	gce.wait();
+
+	double tend = walltime();
+
+	LOG(INFO) << "\tTime elapsed " << (double)(tend - tstart) << " sec" << std::endl;
+
+	global_free(hpcc_table);
+
+	return (double)(tend - tstart);
+}
+
+uint64_t HPCC_starts(int64_t n) {
+	int i, j;
+	uint64_t m2[64];
+	uint64_t temp, ran;
+	while (n < 0) n += PERIOD;
+	while (n > PERIOD) n -= PERIOD;
+	if (n == 0) return 0x1;
+	temp = 0x1;
+	for (i = 0; i < 64; i++) {
+		m2[i] = temp;
+		temp = temp << 1 ^ ((int64_t) temp < 0 ? POLY : 0);
+		temp = temp << 1 ^ ((int64_t) temp < 0 ? POLY : 0);
+	}
+	for (i = 62; i >= 0; i--)
+		if (n >> i & 1)
+			break;
+
+	ran = 0x2;
+	while (i > 0) {
+		temp = 0;
+		for (j = 0; j < 64; j++)
+			if (ran >> j & 1)
+				temp ^= m2[j];
+		ran = temp;
+		i -= 1;
+		if (n >> i & 1)
+			ran = ran << 1 ^ ((int64_t) ran < 0 ? POLY : 0);
+	}
+	return ran;
+}
+
+
+int main(int argc, char * argv[]) {
+  init( &argc, &argv );
+  run([]{
+
+		LOG(INFO) << "\tGlobal table size   = 2^" << FLAGS_scale << " * " << cores() << " = " << (1LL << FLAGS_scale) * cores() << " words\n";
+		LOG(INFO) << "\tNumber of processes = " << cores() << std::endl;
+		LOG(INFO) << "\tNumber of updates = " << FLAGS_iters * (1LL << FLAGS_scale) * cores() << std::endl;
+
+		gups_runtime = run_random_access();
+    gups_throughput = 1e-9 * FLAGS_iters * N / gups_runtime;
+
+    LOG(INFO) << "[Final] CPU time used " << print_time(gups_runtime.value()) << " seconds, " << print_time(gups_throughput.value()) << " GUPS\n";
+    
+  });
+  finalize();
+}