Development of Biological Warfare Sensors Using High Performance Computer Systems

Author

Lanzagorta, Marco ; Eversole, Jay ; Anderson, Wendell

Author_Institution

ITT Corp., Washington, DC

fYear

2008

fDate

14-17 July 2008

Firstpage

314

Lastpage

318

Abstract

The Optical Physics Branch of the Naval Research Laboratory conducts research to develop advanced Biological Warfare (BW) detection capabilities for the real-time autonomous classification of individual aerosol particles. This paper describes the porting of their MATLAB design code running on a non-networked collection of PC Window computers to code that runs under OCTAVE (an Open Source software package that allows a user to run MATLAB programs) on a collection of processors on a high performance computing system. The new code offers the potential for reducing the turnaround time for a single run from 40 hours to 35 minutes.

Keywords

aerosols; biohazards; mathematics computing; military computing; optical sensors; optical tracking; parallel machines; public domain software; software packages; MATLAB design code; OCTAVE; PC Window computers; aerosol; biological warfare sensors; high performance computer systems; high performance computing system; open source software package; Biological information theory; Biology computing; Biomedical optical imaging; Biosensors; High performance computing; MATLAB; Military computing; Optical sensors; Physics; Sensor systems; MATLAB™; Octave; OpenMP; parallel;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

DoD HPCMP Users Group Conference, 2008. DOD HPCMP UGC

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-3323-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DoD.HPCMP.UGC.2008.19

Filename

4755884