NASA to benchmark Star Bridge supercomputersMidvale 23 May 00 Under a Memorandum of Agreement signed May 15, 2000, NASA and Star Bridge will furnish the resources necessary to jointly port NASA's General Purpose Problem Solver (GPS) algorithm to Star Bridge Systems' Implementation Independent Algorithm Description Language (IIADL), which was created to run the company's Hypercomputers. These general-purpose Hypercomputers are a new breed of technical high-performance supercomputers using reconfigurable computing technology developed by the Star Bridge. Star Bridge is a leading pioneer in reconfigurable computing. The company's Hypercomputers use programmable chips to perform multiple general-purpose tasks very rapidly in a small amount of hardware. GPS is widely used in scientific applications, including structural analysis, electromagnetics and acoustics applications, because of its record speed and accuracy in solving equations. The NASA-Star Bridge agreement is an outgrowth of a keynote address given by Kent L. Gilson, Star Bridge's chief technology officer, last year at the Fifth Annual NASA Symposium on Large-Scale Analysis, Design and Intelligent Synthesis Environments in Williamsburg, Va.
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