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NASA NTRS1989

DYSCO: A software system for modeling general dynamic systems

The DYSCO program has been under development since 1979. It has been funded by Army and Air Force laboratories and by the Kaman Aerospace Corporation. It is presently available at a number of government and nongovernment installations. It has been used to analyze a very broad range of dynamics problems. A principle feature of the software design of DYSCO is the separation of the executive from the technology. The executive, which controls all the operations, is intelligent in the sense that it knows that its function is to assemble differential equations and to prepare them for solution. The technology library contains FORTRAN routines which perform standard functions, such as, computing the equation coefficients of an element (or component) given the local state at any time. The technology library also contains algorithms and procedures for solving the coupled system equations. The system was designed to allow easy additional of technology to the library. Any linear or nonlinear structural entity, control system, or set of ordinary differential equations may be simply coded and added to the library, as well as algorithms for time or frequency domain solution. The program is described with emphasis on its usefulness in easily modeling unusual concepts and configurations, performing analysis of damage, evaluating new algorithms, and simulating dynamic tests.

Berman, Alex↗
NASA NTRS2000

COTS-based OO-component approach for software inter-operability and reuse (software systems engineering methodology)

The purpose of this research and study paper is to provide a summary description and results of rapid development accomplishments at NASA/JPL in the area of advanced distributed computing technology using a Commercial-Off--The-Shelf (COTS)-based object oriented component approach to open inter-operable software development and software reuse.

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NASA NTRSDate not supplied

Extravehicular Activity Mission System Software (EMSS) - Enabling Human Planetary Exploration Data Within The Broader Planetary Data Ecosystem

The planetary science community is once again on the verge of generating, capturing and analyzing human planetary exploration data, this time via the Artemis program. Artemis missions will involve robotic missions in addition to human extravehicular activity (EVA) where crew will be generating scientific data [1]. Present-day robotic mission data expectations for data archiving involves ingesting data into the Planetary Data System (PDS), but how might PDS be leveraged/adapted/ready (or not) for human spaceflight mission data, particularly EVA data that includes non-scientific data that provides important context to the scientific data gathered on the lunar surface? This question has broader implications than what this abstract can answer, but we wanted to pose the question to 1) get conversations started and 2) highlight how operations software data handling could play a role in overall data curation.

M J Miller↗
NASA NTRSDate not supplied

NASA Conjunction Assessment Risk Analysis (CARA) Ground Systems, Software and Operations Infrastructure Cloud Implementation

The growing number of large-scale constellations and the improvements made in the tracking and detection of resident space objects have contributed to the increase of satellite conjunction events. As a result of the increase of objects in Earth orbit, the timeline for risk analysis computations for satellite collision avoidance is more urgent when conjunctions occur. It is imperative NASA maintains a space environment safety functionality for the agency that allows CARA remote access to the ground system while maintaining redundancy. CARA’s On-premises (On-prem) ground system would no longer be able to meet these access and redundancy requirements, hence the investigation and eventual implementation of a Cloud-based ground station infrastructure as a viable solution. This paper will provide an overview of the principal parts of the Conjunction Assessment (CA) risk analysis process used at CARA, summarize the key drivers towards the Cloud solution, and share key lessons learned that are significant for any operational entity considering a cloud solution for real-time satellite operations to ensure a sustainable space traffic environment for all.

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NASA NTRS1996

Basic Requirements for Systems Software Research and Development

Our success over the past ten years evaluating and developing advanced computing technologies has been due to a simple research and development (R/D) model. Our model has three phases: (a) evaluating the state-of-the-art, (b) identifying problems and creating innovations, and (c) developing solutions, improving the state- of-the-art. This cycle has four basic requirements: a large production testbed with real users, a diverse collection of state-of-the-art hardware, facilities for evalua- tion of emerging technologies and development of innovations, and control over system management on these testbeds. Future research will be irrelevant and future products will not work if any of these requirements is eliminated. In order to retain our effectiveness, the numerical aerospace simulator (NAS) must replace out-of-date production testbeds in as timely a fashion as possible, and cannot afford to ignore innovative designs such as new distributed shared memory machines, clustered commodity-based computers, and multi-threaded architectures.

Kuszmaul, Chris↗
NASA NTRS2010

Space Shuttle Program Primary Avionics Software System (PASS) Success Legacy -Major Accomplishments and Lessons Learned

This presentation has shown the accomplishments of the PASS project over three decades and highlighted the lessons learned. Over the entire time, our goal has been to continuously improve our process, implement automation for both quality and increased productivity, and identify and remove all defects due to prior execution of a flawed process in addition to improving our processes following identification of significant process escapes. Morale and workforce instability have been issues, most significantly during 1993 to 1998 (period of consolidation in aerospace industry). The PASS project has also consulted with others, including the Software Engineering Institute, so as to be an early evaluator, adopter, and adapter of state-of-the-art software engineering innovations.

Orr, James K.↗
NASA NTRS2017

Spaceport Command and Control System Software Development

During the course of this internship, software was developed to ensure the efficient management and allocation of an employee to an area of their expertise or experience that may otherwise have gone unnoticed. This directly affects any future missions prescribed to the SLS by allowing management to easily see where employees can be re-allocated to different mission specific projects or assist a project that may be lacking in a specific field. This software is intended to provide proof of NASA's diligence and deliberation in hiring new employees and in providing training and guidance to employees who may have fallen short of expectations. Allowing management to more easily statistically track and monitor the supply and demand of employees with specific experience will help introduce a beneficial culture where employees are given the ability to grow and hone skills which might otherwise atrophy over time. With this new system in place, NASA can prove the employees they hire and already have are exemplary and will remain exemplary to serve the nation as a whole.

Kessluk, Jonathan↗
NASA NTRS1987

Digital-flight-control-system software written in automated-engineering-design language: A user's guide of verification and validation tools

The user guide of verification and validation (V&V) tools for the Automated Engineering Design (AED) language is specifically written to update the information found in several documents pertaining to the automated verification of flight software tools. The intent is to provide, in one document, all the information necessary to adequately prepare a run to use the AED V&V tools. No attempt is made to discuss the FORTRAN V&V tools since they were not updated and are not currently active. Additionally, the current descriptions of the AED V&V tools are contained and provides information to augment the NASA TM 84276. The AED V&V tools are accessed from the digital flight control systems verification laboratory (DFCSVL) via a PDP-11/60 digital computer. The AED V&V tool interface handlers on the PDP-11/60 generate a Univac run stream which is transmitted to the Univac via a Remote Job Entry (RJE) link. Job execution takes place on the Univac 1100 and the job output is transmitted back to the DFCSVL and stored as a PDP-11/60 printfile.

Saito, Jim↗
DOE OSTI2017

XPRESS: eXascale PRogramming Environment and System Software, Final Report

The University of Oregon (UO) was a partner in the XPRESS project together with Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Indiana University (IU), Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL), Louisiana State University (LSU), Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), University of Houston (UH), and University of North Carolina (RENCI). UO's objective in the project was to develop "APEX (Asynchronous Performance Environment for eXascale)": performance measurement, analysis, feedback and control infrastructure to asynchronous tasking runtimes, specifically HPX (LSU) and HPX-5 (IU). During the project period, our efforts focused on the need to measure complex tasking models where the traditional instrumentation methods would not work due to an absent/meaningless call-path context and runtime control of task pre-emption and resumption, usually on a different operating system thread. In addition to the challenges of performance measurement, we developed a framework to provide information from all levels of the stack (hardware, operating system, runtime, application) to a feedback & control mechanism for controlling concurrency, task granularity, networking parameters, and other aspects of execution in order to improve execution performance, throughput and/or efficiency. UO demonstrated these developments on leading edge HPC machines at large scale, including a 2017 Gordon Bell submission in which APEX was used to optimize key bottlenecks in an astrophysics application. The following final report summarizes our accomplishments during the XPRESS project.

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DOE OSTI2015

Evaluation of DUSTRAN Software System for Modeling Chloride Deposition on Steel Canisters

The degradation of steel by stress corrosion cracking (SCC) when exposed to atmospheric conditions for decades is a significant challenge in the fossil fuel and nuclear industries. SCC can occur when corrosive contaminants such as chlorides are deposited on a susceptible material in a tensile stress state. The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has identified chloride-induced SCC as a potential cause for concern in stainless steel used nuclear fuel (UNF) canisters in dry storage. The modeling of contaminant deposition is the first step in predictive multiscale modeling of SCC that is essential to develop mitigation strategies, prioritize inspection, and ensure the integrity and performance of canisters, pipelines, and structural materials. A multiscale simulation approach can be developed to determine the likelihood that a canister would undergo SCC in a certain period of time. This study investigates the potential of DUSTRAN, a dust dispersion modeling system developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, to model the deposition of chloride contaminants from sea salt aerosols on a steel canister. Results from DUSTRAN simulations run with historical meteorological data were compared against measured chloride data at a coastal site in Maine. DUSTRAN’s CALPUFF model tended to simulate concentrations higher than those measured; however, the closest estimations were within the same order of magnitude as the measured values. The decrease in discrepancies between measured and simulated values as the level of abstraction in wind speed decreased suggest that the model is very sensitive to wind speed. However, the influence of other parameters such as the distinction between open-ocean and surf-zone sources needs to be explored further. Deposition values predicted by the DUSTRAN system were not in agreement with concentration values and suggest that the deposition calculations may not fully represent physical processes. Overall, results indicate that with parameter refinement, DUSTRAN has the potential to simulate atmospheric chloride dispersion on steel canisters.

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DOE OSTI2016

XPRESS: eXascale PRogramming Environment and System Software

This is the final report for UNC activities as its part in the XStack program XPRESS project. A project-wide final report will be submitted by the project as a whole through Sandia National Laboratory when the contracts to the other participating organizations have reached their conclusion(s).

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