NASTRAN on the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer: Feasibility Study and Experimentation.
Abstract
The Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer is a very powerful, very fast, large central memory computer for scientific applications programs. Large programs such as NASTRAN, which perform extensive numerical processing of large matrices, should require significantly less central processor time when run on such a computer. A feasibility study was carried out which addressed the possibility of running NASTRAN in a split mode on the Texas Instruments Advanced Scientific Computer at the Naval Research Laboratory and on the CDC 6000 at DTNSRDC, and included experiments on the TIASC computer. The major problem area found by the feasibility study involves transfer of data between the the two computers, since the availability of a reliable, cheap, and fast means of transfer of very large amounts of data is not a certainty. If this problem can be overcome, the advantages of such a split mode operation, with respect to cost and resources, could be significant.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Nov 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA035097
Entities
People
- Michael E. Golden
- Myles M. Hurwitz