High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative (HPEC-SI)

Abstract

The High Performance Embedded Computing Software Initiative is addressing the military's need to advance the state of embedded software development tools, libraries, and methodologies to retain the nation's military technology advantage in increasingly software-based systems. Key accomplishments include the completion of the first demonstration and the development of the Parallel VSIPL++ standard. Currently, the HPEC-SI effort is on track towards its goal of changing the state-of-the-practice in programming DoD HPEC SIP systems. This paper gives a brief overview of the HPEC-SI program objectives, technical objectives and program plans. The HPEC-SI program is organized around demonstrations, standards development, and applied research. Each of these activities is overseen by a Working Group. The demonstrations team Prime contractors with FFRDC or academic partners to use currently defined standards, evaluate their performance, and report on how well their needs are being met. The first demonstration was with the Common Imagery Processor (CIP) and successfully showed the use of MPI communication standard and the VSIPL computation standard to achieve portability (while preserving performance) across shared servers and distributed memory embedded systems. The Development Working Group is extending the VSIPL standard to include parallel object-oriented software practices already prototyped by the research community. This effort is tightly coupled with military demonstrations; it provides the next generation of standards with direct feedback from the military user base. The Applied Research Working Group is also taking a longer term view to assess the potential impact of a variety of emerging technologies, such as fault tolerance and dynamic scheduling, self-optimization, and next generation, high productivity languages. Thirty-one briefing charts summarize the presentation.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 20, 2004
Accession Number
ADA428798

Entities

People

  • Jeremy Kepner

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics
  • Air Platforms
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Algorithms
  • Application Software
  • Computations
  • Computer Programming
  • Computers
  • Department Of Defense
  • Embedded Systems
  • Fault Tolerance
  • Governments
  • Image Processing
  • Language
  • Software Development
  • Software Development Tools
  • Standards
  • Synthetic Aperture Radar
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.