Project Title:

A New Machine Architecture for Structural Analysis

04.05-8166
900156
A New Machine Architecture for Structural Analysis

Abstract:

A fast novel scientific workstation is proposed for solving aeropropulsion system
structures with cyclic symmetry exhibiting nonlinear response in high temperatures.
An engineering study will map efficient algorithms onto new parallel architecture
which is extensible across both the SIMD and MIMD design paradigm. A significant
feature of the approach is the coupling of the same computational kernel to several
processing elements so that true parallel computing without usual data partitioning
overhead occurs. A fully parallel single instruction/clock crossbar ASIC is to be
implemented for the dynamically reconfigurable architecture. This achievement is
now possible only through recent VLSI discoveries with ASIC devices. Because the
computer hardware "glue logic" has shrunk, physical boards and backplanes have also
reduced to make economic designs at 200 MHz clocks feasible.
This fast architecture is attractive to several biomedical applications including
MRI, CATSCAN, PETSCAN, and Ultrasound imaging because the efficient parallel algorithms
and data streaming speeds reduce both computation time and hardware costs.
multiprocessor, SIMD, MIMD, SVD, crossbar, vector, scientific workstation