105 research outputs found
Center for Aeronautics and Space Information Sciences
This report summarizes the research done during 1991/92 under the Center for Aeronautics and Space Information Science (CASIS) program. The topics covered are computer architecture, networking, and neural nets
Summary of research in applied mathematics, numerical analysis, and computer sciences
The major categories of current ICASE research programs addressed include: numerical methods, with particular emphasis on the development and analysis of basic numerical algorithms; control and parameter identification problems, with emphasis on effective numerical methods; computational problems in engineering and physical sciences, particularly fluid dynamics, acoustics, and structural analysis; and computer systems and software, especially vector and parallel computers
Literature Review For Networking And Communication Technology
Report documents the results of a literature search performed in the area of networking and communication technology
Report of the IEEE Workshop on Measurement and Modeling of Computer Dependability
Coordinated Science Laboratory was formerly known as Control Systems LaboratoryNASA Langley Research Center / NASA NAG-1-602 and NASA NAG-1-613ONR / N00014-85-K-000
State-of-the-art Assessment For Simulated Forces
Summary of the review of the state of the art in simulated forces conducted to support the research objectives of Research and Development for Intelligent Simulated Forces
NASA high performance computing and communications program
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's HPCC program is part of a new Presidential initiative aimed at producing a 1000-fold increase in supercomputing speed and a 100-fold improvement in available communications capability by 1997. As more advanced technologies are developed under the HPCC program, they will be used to solve NASA's 'Grand Challenge' problems, which include improving the design and simulation of advanced aerospace vehicles, allowing people at remote locations to communicate more effectively and share information, increasing scientist's abilities to model the Earth's climate and forecast global environmental trends, and improving the development of advanced spacecraft. NASA's HPCC program is organized into three projects which are unique to the agency's mission: the Computational Aerosciences (CAS) project, the Earth and Space Sciences (ESS) project, and the Remote Exploration and Experimentation (REE) project. An additional project, the Basic Research and Human Resources (BRHR) project exists to promote long term research in computer science and engineering and to increase the pool of trained personnel in a variety of scientific disciplines. This document presents an overview of the objectives and organization of these projects as well as summaries of individual research and development programs within each project
The exploitation of parallelism on shared memory multiprocessors
PhD ThesisWith the arrival of many general purpose shared memory multiple processor
(multiprocessor) computers into the commercial arena during the mid-1980's, a
rift has opened between the raw processing power offered by the emerging
hardware and the relative inability of its operating software to effectively deliver
this power to potential users. This rift stems from the fact that, currently, no
computational model with the capability to elegantly express parallel activity is
mature enough to be universally accepted, and used as the basis for programming
languages to exploit the parallelism that multiprocessors offer. To add to this,
there is a lack of software tools to assist programmers in the processes of designing
and debugging parallel programs.
Although much research has been done in the field of programming languages,
no undisputed candidate for the most appropriate language for programming
shared memory multiprocessors has yet been found. This thesis examines why this
state of affairs has arisen and proposes programming language constructs,
together with a programming methodology and environment, to close the ever
widening hardware to software gap.
The novel programming constructs described in this thesis are intended for use
in imperative languages even though they make use of the synchronisation
inherent in the dataflow model by using the semantics of single assignment when
operating on shared data, so giving rise to the term shared values. As there are
several distinct parallel programming paradigms, matching flavours of shared
value are developed to permit the concise expression of these paradigms.The Science and Engineering Research Council
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