Guy R. Booth

Date of Award

12-1991

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Science

Department

Department of Operational Sciences

First Advisor

Thomas C. Hartrum, PhD

Abstract

The Software Engineering Institute developed an Object-Oriented Paradigm for Flight Simulators based on the concept of mapping the behavior of physical objects from an aircraft into an object-oriented software architecture. This mapping is a semi-formal method that maps objects to a hierarchy that has three logical layers: objects, systems, and executives. The paradigm was developed with the idea of implementing the derived simulation design on a parallel or distributed computer architecture, but no explicity design features are provided for implementing the design on a parallel computer. This research addresses the issue of determining what extensions (if any) are required to implement a parallel version of the D.C. Electrical System Simulation (DESS) that the SEI developed as an example on using their paradigm. The parallel DESS design is implemented and tested using Ada on an Intel iPSC/2 Hypercube. An analysis of the performance of the simulation is presented, and some conclusions are made about implementing a parallel design based on the SEI Object-Oriented Paradigm for Flight Simulators.

AFIT Designator

AFIT-GCE-ENS-91D-01

DTIC Accession Number

ADA243700

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