We are currently modeling the radiative transfer in mixtures of materials, which include ices, hydrated minerals, and organic molecules. We have identified several possible ways to parallelize the code and will attempt to do this shortly. The code should parallelize such as to give at least a factor of 1,000 greater speed. This should allow unique calculations to be made. Researchers at Syracuse University have been investigating a way to combine both spatial and temporal information directly and quickly.
Results indicate real time implementation is viable.
The elapsed time for generation of simulated radar signals was reduced by portioning the range dimension to individual IBM SP processors. A 2.7-hour run on a single processor was reduced to 2.6 minutes average on 64 processors. Khoros is a widely-used software development and integration environment that emphasizes information processing, data exploration, and visualization. In the parallel environment, Motet acts as a batch parallel job processor and remotely, sequentially executes a series of parallel routines. Upon completion of the parallel routines, all data is gathered from the parallel machine by a parallel download routine, and sent to the local machine, where local Khoral execution control resumes.