Integration of tools for the Design and Assessment of High-Performance, Highly Reliable Computing Systems (DAHPHRS), phase 1

Technical Report · Fri May 01 00:00:00 EDT 1992

OSTI ID:7252189

Scheper, C; Baker, R; Frank, G; Yalamanchili, S; Gray, G

Systems for Space Defense Initiative (SDI) space applications typically require both high performance and very high reliability. These requirements present the systems engineer evaluating such systems with the extremely difficult problem of conducting performance and reliability trade-offs over large design spaces. A controlled development process supported by appropriate automated tools must be used to assure that the system will meet design objectives. This report describes an investigation of methods, tools, and techniques necessary to support performance and reliability modeling for SDI systems development. Models of the JPL Hypercubes, the Encore Multimax, and the C.S. Draper Lab Fault-Tolerant Parallel Processor (FTPP) parallel-computing architectures using candidate SDI weapons-to-target assignment algorithms as workloads were built and analyzed as a means of identifying the necessary system models, how the models interact, and what experiments and analyses should be performed. As a result of this effort, weaknesses in the existing methods and tools were revealed and capabilities that will be required for both individual tools and an integrated toolset were identified.

• Research Organization: Research Triangle Inst., Research Triangle Park, NC (United States)
• OSTI ID: 7252189
• Report Number(s): N-92-28585; NASA-CR-189621; NAS-1.26:189621; CNN: NAS1-17964; RTOP 505-64-54-01
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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