Applications of High Performance On-Board Computing:

Multiplatform Missions in NASA's Sun-Earth Connections Theme

This page links the products of the REE Solar Terrestrial Probe Line Science Application Team.

Our goal is to adapt advanced computing techniques using commercial off the shelf products to solve information and decision problems that arise on spacecraft on scientific missions.

Other sites on advanced spacecraft concepts.

A Nontechnical Test Welcome Page.

• REE/STP finished in early 2001, however some of the technologies are to be demonstrated in the new Magnetospheric Plasma Computation Demostration (launch '03 or '04).

REE/STP Final Report 2001 tgz

• Covers the work performed by REE/STP to enable onboard science data reduction on high performance computers, including documents, publications, and presentations for the period 1998-2001.

Automated information extraction.

• Automated Detection of the Magnetopause for Space Weather from the IMAGE Satellite, to be presented at SPIE's Aerosense 2000, Orlando, FL, 24-28 April 2000. 0.9MB, pdf. 0.2MB, gzip+ps.

• Automatic Enhancement and Detection of IMAGE Radio Plasma Imager Echoes: 1. Derivation and Models, presented at the Fall 1999 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December 1999. 4MB, pdf. 0.6MB, ps+gz.

STP: Plasma Moment Analysis.

• The Potential of Spaceborne High Performance Computers for Onboard Space Physics Data Analysis, presented at the Fall 1999 Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, San Francisco, CA, 13-17 December 1999. 3MB, pdf. 0.6MB, ps+gz.

STP: Radio Astronomical Imaging: Solar Imaging Radio Array: Modelling the dataflow.

• Making diagnostic interferometry possible, presented at the 1999 Spring Meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Boston, MA, 1-4 June 1999. 4.6MB, pdf. 1.1MB, gzip+ps.

• Fortran 90/MPI/PGPLOT code that models the data flow in a radio array.
• The code models the source, signal cross-correlation, and the dirty map.
• This code is a starting point, much needs to be added.
• Version 990408. 137kB gzip+tar Snapshot for delivery. Tested on the T3E.
• Version 981208. 28kB gzip+tar Obsolete.
• Previous versions may be available on request.

Viewgraph describing Solar Imaging Radio Array data reduction: dirty images (980908). 3MB Postscript.

STP: Hardware Requirements Summary: Clarification of our GC6.2 Submission (980326). 120kB Postscript.

• Lisp code to calculate system requirements from data production rates and analysis methods.

STP: Dusty deck: Plasma moment calculation (980306). gzip+tar

• A preliminary release of code that analyzes spacecraft data.

STP: GC6.2 Hardware and Software Applications Requirements (980302, 980309). 221kB Postscript.

Viewgraphs describing the Solar Terrestrial Probe REE/Science Application (980210). 9.29MB Postscript.

Presentation at the First REE All Teams Meeting, 27-29 Jan 1998. 191kB Postscript.