Special Symposium on Advanced Hybrid Computing, San Francisco, California, 23-24 July 1975.
Abstract
The symposium focuses on several recent technological advancements on both hardware and software, which makes it possible to develop an advanced hybrid computer system (ahcs). These advances, which include highly reliable, low-cost solid-state switching devices, advanced communication techniques and high-level hybrid programming languages, provide the AHCS with automatic patching and scaling, remote terminal access for time-slicing the system and complete programmability in a high-level, CSSL-type language. As a result, this system will be easily programmable by the non-hybrid-oriented user, yet still maintain the 30:1 cost and speed advantages over pure-digital systems for solving dynamic problems. Although designed as a stand-alone system, the AHCS could easily be linked to any large-scale digital computer to allow the access of hybrid computer programs or routines for use in digital programs. Even if the next generation of digital machines is ten times faster than today's, the AHCS will still be two to three orders of magnitude faster for dynamic simulation problems, and will market for less than one-tenth the cost.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1975
- Accession Number
- ADA022660
Entities
People
- Aldric Saucier
Organizations
- United States Army Materiel Command