Impact of Bisection Bandwidth Constraints on Software Development Costs

Abstract

This report discusses the costs of developing software as a function of bisection bandwidth constraints of hardware configurations. System development experts were surveyed to obtain data to help quantify effects of developing software in bandwidth limited applications. A discussion of software cost estimating models is given and a case is made for including bisection bandwidth in using these models. The advantages of free space optical interconnects are enumerated. The report concludes that availability of high bandwidth interconnects, especially in intensive military real time signal processing applications, could lead to substantial savings in system development and maintenance costs.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1998
Accession Number
ADA339658

Entities

People

  • John A. Neff
  • Wes C. Berseth

Organizations

  • University of Colorado Boulder

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Data Compression
  • Debugging
  • Embedded Systems
  • Engineers
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Costs
  • Military Research
  • Optical Interconnects
  • Signal Processing
  • Software Development
  • Target Recognition

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Graph Algorithms and Convex Optimization.
  • Optical Physics and Photonics.
  • Software Engineering

Technology Areas

  • Space