Applications of the MasPar MP-1 at NASA/Goddard

Author

Fischer, J.R. ; Dorband, J.

Author_Institution

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

1991

fDate

Feb. 25 1991-March 1 1991

Firstpage

278

Lastpage

282

Abstract

Massively parallel systems are targeted for accelerated development and maturation by NASA´s upcoming five-year High Performance Computing Initiative. A summary of the broad range of applications currently running on the MP-1 is presented along with descriptions of the parallel algorithmic techniques employed in five of them. The following applications are described in some detail: finite element simulation, tridiagonal solver, neural networks, image deblurring, and point plotting. The MasPar MP-1 has replaced the MPP (Massively Parallel Processor) and with 8K processors installed is providing more than twice the megaflop power and 64 times the high-speed memory. All the MPP users have migrated their development activities to the MasPar along with many of their application codes. User feedback has been positive due to the more capable hardware and its excellent reliability.<>

Keywords

aerospace computing; finite element analysis; matrix algebra; neural nets; parallel machines; picture processing; High Performance Computing Initiative; MasPar MP-1; aerospace computing; finite element simulation; image deblurring; megaflop power; neural networks; parallel algorithmic techniques; point plotting; tridiagonal solver; Application software; Computer architecture; Data processing; Earth Observing System; Geoscience; High performance computing; NASA; Physics computing; Space missions; Supercomputers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '91. Digest of Papers

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-2134-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1991.128818

Filename

128818