(DURIP) Two-Processor Alliant FX/4 System

Abstract

This proposal requested a two-processor Alliant FX/4 system with disk drives, tape backup, operator's console, and local line printer. This computer offers vector processing capability, a high-speed cache memory, and a shared memory multiprocessing architecture. When the project was funded, Alliant was willing to sell a two-processor FX/40 for the same amount. This system supports research in control and optimization, nonlinear least squared problems, partial differential equations, integral equations, parameter identification problems, and signal processing that is currently being carried out at North Carolina State University under AFOSR sponsorship by C.T. Kelley, R.J. Plemmons, M shearer, and S.J. Wright. The equipment is being used for design and testing of algorithms that take advantage of multiprocessing and vector architectures for large scale problems in these areas, for training of graduate students, and as a high-speed computing resource for problems, such as partial differential equations and large scale optimization problems that are too large to fit on the other local facilities presently available. (EMK)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 16, 1990
Accession Number
ADA217810

Entities

People

  • C. T. Kelly

Organizations

  • North Carolina State University

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Boundary Value Problems
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Differential Equations
  • Electrons
  • Engineering
  • Equations
  • Integral Equations
  • Linear Programming
  • Multiprocessors
  • North Carolina
  • Optimization
  • Partial Differential Equations
  • Security
  • Students

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  • Finite Element Method (FEM) for solving Partial Differential Equations (PDEs)
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Research Science/Academic Research