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EPSRC Reference:	GR/J07082/01
Title:	SIMULATING CONCURRENT PHENOMENA WITH THE SPACE MACHINE
Principal Investigator:	Cockshott, Dr P
Other Investigators:	Barrie, Mr P Fryer, Dr R Fryer, Dr R
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Department:	Computer and Information Sciences
Organisation:	University of Strathclyde
Scheme:	Standard Research (Pre-FEC)
Starts:	17 May 1993	Ends:	16 November 1996	Value (£):	126,692
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Parallel Computing
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	No relevance to Underpinning Sectors
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To appraise applicability of our SPACE Machine concurrent computer architecture for the fast simulation of highly concurrent physical systems. The project involves construction of two types of models (lattice-gas and traffic-network), their simulation and subsequent benchmarking against super- computer which uses technology of comparable age (Connection Machine). Progress:(i) Completed basic machine development within original hardware budget.(ii) Completed gas-simulation experiments and benchmarked these against Connection Machine. The results show a single SPACE machine module to be comparable in cell updates/second with an entire Connection Machine. A SPACE machine with as many circuit boards as a Connection Machine would be several hundred times faster.(iii) Produced a departmental report on gas simulation and submitted a paper for publication.(iv) Produced a detailed design document for the realisation of a traffic simulation system. Performed detailed simulations on this traffic model.(v) Work is currently underway on the implementation of a memory support board for machine to support the traffic simulation system.(vi) Completed integration of road traffic schematic editor. This generates road network descriptions.(vii) Constructed software assembler to compile road network descriptions into bit-stream form.(vi) Progressing work on systems software to integrate SPACE machine with host operating system.
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