High Efficiency, Scalable, Parallel Processing Approaches for Multi-Sensor Data Fusion

"Management Communications and Control, Inc. (MCCI) proposes specification of applications for high performance scalable, distributed computing systems as "virtual circuits", data flow graph based software architectures. The mathematical properties of dataflow, which are similar to physical current flow, enable application of circuit theory based synthesis and design methods to create highly efficient applications for parallel architectures. Proposed methodology innovations will exploit data flow graphproperties of equivalency and hierarchy. Equivalent parallel graph segments will be generated for specified architecture partitions creating parallel architectures that readily translate to highly efficient designs. Hierarchical decomposition ofarchitectures design's matching communications loading with hierarchical network capacity will produce application designs with balanced processing and communications loads that is required for high efficiency. The company will demonstrate the capabilityof its computer aided design and automatic code generation technology, the Autocoding ToolsetT, to support the innovations explored. Extensions and new capabilities that are required to establish full CAD support for developing highly efficient, scalableprocessing applications will be identified. The methodology innovations we will develop will be incorporated in the company's commercial product, the Autocoding ToolsetT. Extensions we identi