Title :
Militarized touchstone program
Abstract :
Recognizing the Government´s desire to reduce cost of acquisition, Honeywell embarked on a program in 1990 to leverage Intel´s Touchstone commercial high performance parallel processor to provide a militarized high performance computer with programmability features and scaleability to many different DoD applications. Under a Defense Advanced Research Projects Office (DARPA) contract, we are developing a prototype nine-node processor to demonstrate 5.4 GFLOPS in a 0.5 ft3 chassis. Software is identical to its commercial ParagonTM counterpart. Demonstration will occur in early 1994
Keywords :
aerospace computing; military computing; parallel architectures; parallel machines; 5.4 GFLOPS; DARPA; Defense Advanced Research Projects Office; DoD applications; Honeywell; Intel´s Touchstone; Paragon software; cost of acquisition; militarized high performance computer; military computer; parallel processor; programmability; prototype nine-node processor; scaleability; Calendars; Concurrent computing; Contracts; Costs; High performance computing; Military computing; Operating systems; Production; Prototypes; Software prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Aerospace and Electronics Conference, 1993. NAECON 1993., Proceedings of the IEEE 1993 National
Conference_Location :
Dayton, OH
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-1295-3
DOI :
10.1109/NAECON.1993.290906
