This concept will be tested by using ACTS to link Boeing and Lewis as they conduct a remote turbine engine inlet simulation in support of the High-Speed Civil Transport Program. The inlet simulator will be executed on the Lewis Cray YMP supercomputer but controlled by Boeing in Seattle, Washington. The experimental ACTS satellite network will allow aerospace manufacturers to remotely access NASA's distributed engine inlet simulation application. The goal is to harness the enormous number of idle computing cycles for use in a distributed application. The economic factors and the risk amortization, when compared with the purchase of a supercomputer system, make this approach extremely attractive.
Low cost is essential.
One reason why ATM has attracted so much interest in this environment is its initial lower cost compared with FDDI interface cards when they were first introduced. This work uses an ATM test bed to evaluate the performance implications of flow creation and warm-start behavior. Supports Schools NASA Lewis began the K-12 project to inspire students from kindergarten through high school to pursue careers in science and engineering. A particular focus is on underrepresented schools and minorities. We have involved teachers early on and continually throughout the project, making training available to raise all participants to the same level of expertise and to standardize on computing platforms so that all participants could easily share advances within the project.