AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a Multiprocessor

From Tetherless World Wiki

Jump to: navigation, search

Citation: A. Noble and E. Rogers. (1988) AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a Multiprocessor. In KSL-88-41, June,1988.

Publication techreport ( Edit )
type Technical Report
bibtype techreport
Bibtex basics
author A. Noble and E. Rogers
title AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a Multiprocessor
number KSL-88-41
institution Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory
year 1988
month June
Bibtex more
note 101 pages.
Access Paper
abstract Very Little is known about programming knowledge-based systems on multiprocessors. To understand the effectiveness of parallel implementations of such systems, programming problems and performance issues need to be studied at all levels of the computational hierarchy, from hardware to application.AIRTRAC is a simulated radar signal interpretation system for tracking and classifying aircraft, and runs on CARE, a simulated distributed-memory multiprocessor architecture. CARE consists of 1 to 1000 processor-memory pairs communicating via a network that provides reliable message delivery but without message ordering. AIRTRAC is implemented in LAMINA, an object-oriented applications programming interface to CARE, and ELMA, a high-level interface built on top of LAMINA. These are Zetalisp extensions which provide mechanisms and language interface syntax for expressing and managing concurrency.This report documents the development of the Path Association module of AIRTRAC, from design through implementation and testing, and describes the features of the supporting ELMA interface, which was developed in parallel with the application. We define the criterion of sustainable data rate for quantitative performance evaluation and describe experiments to determine performance under different conditions and their results. We discuss the techniques and constructs we used and the lessons we learned in the course of developing Path Association. We believe these lessons and results will be useful to others working in the field of parallel symbolic computation.

KSL Technical Report ID: KSL-88-41
Facts about AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a MultiprocessorRDF feed
Abstract Very Little is known about programming kno … Very Little is known about programming knowledge-based systems on multiprocessors. To understand the effectiveness of parallel implementations of such systems, programming problems and performance issues need to be studied at all levels of the computational hierarchy, from hardware to application.AIRTRAC is a simulated radar signal interpretation system for tracking and classifying aircraft, and runs on CARE, a simulated distributed-memory multiprocessor architecture. CARE consists of 1 to 1000 processor-memory pairs communicating via a network that provides reliable message delivery but without message ordering. AIRTRAC is implemented in LAMINA, an object-oriented applications programming interface to CARE, and ELMA, a high-level interface built on top of LAMINA. These are Zetalisp extensions which provide mechanisms and language interface syntax for expressing and managing concurrency.This report documents the development of the Path Association module of AIRTRAC, from design through implementation and testing, and describes the features of the supporting ELMA interface, which was developed in parallel with the application. We define the criterion of sustainable data rate for quantitative performance evaluation and describe experiments to determine performance under different conditions and their results. We discuss the techniques and constructs we used and the lessons we learned in the course of developing Path Association. We believe these lessons and results will be useful to others working in the field of parallel symbolic computation. he field of parallel symbolic computation.
Author A. Noble and E. Rogers  +
Bibtype techreport  +
Has author A. Noble and E. Rogers  +
Has identifier KSL-88-41  +
Has publishing details June,1988  +
Has title AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a Multiprocessor  +
Has where published KSL-88-41  +
Has year 1988  +
Institution Knowledge Systems, AI Laboratory  +
Ksl tr id KSL-88-41  +
Month June  +
Note 101 pages.
Number KSL-88-41  +
Process note YES  +
Title AIRTRAC Path Association: Development of a Knowledge-Based System for a Multiprocessor  +
Year 1988  +
Retrieved from "http://tw.rpi.edu/wiki/AIRTRAC_Path_Association:_Development_of_a_Knowledge-Based_System_for_a_Multiprocessor"
Personal tools