4.2.3 HECC 1997 Expected Milestones

Demonstrate 100 gigaops/cu. ft. militarized high performance computing systems
High performance CAD demonstration of 64 Mb/s CMOS wireless transceiver
Demonstrate advanced object management systems integrated with operating systems and applications to achieve efficient use of memory while enhancing execution speed
Demonstrate high-level, portable parallel test generation system with fully-integrated, parameterized, constraint-driven design libraries, including portable software templates for teraFLOPS scalable testbeds
Demonstrate initial multisite collaborative design research environment for integrated circuit process simulation and remote experimentation over the Internet, using advanced software environment that supports composition tools for composing software, integration, and software development and testing using animation techniques
Demonstrate optimizing compilers with 5-10 times runtime performance improvement through partial compilation and late optimization during program execution
Demonstrate real-time distributed operating systems for embeddable high performance computing systems
Demonstrate integrating testbed architecture incorporating advanced distributed simulation, advanced distributed collaboration, advanced communications and control, and advanced human computer interfaces
Demonstrate initial capabilities of intelligent information services architecture with multiple mechanisms for describing resource capabilities and with a uniform interface to hybrid search methods for resource retrieval
Demonstrate systems for coordinating sets of workstations as a single computing system and demonstrate scalability from distributed workstation clusters to teraFLOPS supercomputers on the identical technology base
Demonstrate end-to-end reduction in cost by a factor of four and in time to solution by a factor of five for aerospace design applications on heterogeneous workstation clusters