blue line engineering sbirs nas8-99081 fully active subscale telescope (fast) nas8- 01034
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No Slide TitleSandy Montgomery/SD71
NAS8- 01034
MSFC CDDF
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Objectives:
Demonstration events in lab and exhibit hall
Testbed Components
Seven, 33 cm diameter primary mirror segments
Electronics for static figure correction & maintenance
Motorized Stow/Deploy
Blue Line Engineering NAS8-99081
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Optical Design
Xinetics . NAS8-98243
Aperture: equivalent to 92.5 cm dia.
filled circular (0.672 m2)
Prescription: parabolic, f/1.25, 2.5m focal length
FOV: >4 arc minutes
Performance: Diffraction limit at 2 µm
(l/14 = 143nm ~ 1/4 wave visible)
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
NAS8- 01034
Phase I completion date: August 17, 2001
Objective feasibility of enhanced edge sensors to deploy, align, and phase match the primary mirror segments of space based telescopes
Design Features
fuzzy logic
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Phase I
experimental testing
developed,
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
MSFC CDDF
Project Schedule: FY01 & FY02
Objectives
103 fold increase in computing capability for managing active primary mirror segments
improved techniques for minimizing wave front error.
experience
ground-based computer clusters
Beowulf Cluster Computer [after Ridge et al, 1997]
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Purchase a Beowulf computer cluster and associated Linux software.
Utilize the Beowulf in conjunction with optical test beds to develop
the use of cluster computing for segmented mirror control.
software for astronomy and wave front control, and
application program - distributed computing (e.g. Fortran 99).
Beowulf Background
technology of clustering Linux computers to form a parallel, virtual supercomputer.
one server node with client nodes connected together via Ethernet or some other network.
no custom components; mass-market commodity hardware
PC capable of running Linux,
Ethernet adapters
NASA High Performance Computing and Communications program
Earth and space sciences project at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
In October of 1996
Gigaflops sustained performance on a space science application for cost under $50K.
MSFC CDDF
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
MSFC CDDF
7 Slave Node(s)
4U Rackmount ATX Case with 250 Watt UL Power Supply
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD
Dolphin Interconnect’s Wulfkit
4U Rackmount ATX Case with 250 Watt UL Power Supply
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD
32x CD-R/W, SVGA with 32 MB, Tape back-up
Dolphin Interconnect’s Wulfkit
PVM, MPICH, LAM-MPI Communication Libraries
ScaLAPACK with ATLAS Libraries
Portable Batch System (PBS)
Lesstiff, Mesa (OpenGL), IBM Data Explorer
SCA Linda (4 CPUs)
NAS8- 01034
MSFC CDDF
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Objectives:
Demonstration events in lab and exhibit hall
Testbed Components
Seven, 33 cm diameter primary mirror segments
Electronics for static figure correction & maintenance
Motorized Stow/Deploy
Blue Line Engineering NAS8-99081
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Optical Design
Xinetics . NAS8-98243
Aperture: equivalent to 92.5 cm dia.
filled circular (0.672 m2)
Prescription: parabolic, f/1.25, 2.5m focal length
FOV: >4 arc minutes
Performance: Diffraction limit at 2 µm
(l/14 = 143nm ~ 1/4 wave visible)
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
NAS8- 01034
Phase I completion date: August 17, 2001
Objective feasibility of enhanced edge sensors to deploy, align, and phase match the primary mirror segments of space based telescopes
Design Features
fuzzy logic
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Phase I
experimental testing
developed,
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
MSFC CDDF
Project Schedule: FY01 & FY02
Objectives
103 fold increase in computing capability for managing active primary mirror segments
improved techniques for minimizing wave front error.
experience
ground-based computer clusters
Beowulf Cluster Computer [after Ridge et al, 1997]
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
Purchase a Beowulf computer cluster and associated Linux software.
Utilize the Beowulf in conjunction with optical test beds to develop
the use of cluster computing for segmented mirror control.
software for astronomy and wave front control, and
application program - distributed computing (e.g. Fortran 99).
Beowulf Background
technology of clustering Linux computers to form a parallel, virtual supercomputer.
one server node with client nodes connected together via Ethernet or some other network.
no custom components; mass-market commodity hardware
PC capable of running Linux,
Ethernet adapters
NASA High Performance Computing and Communications program
Earth and space sciences project at the Goddard Space Flight Center.
In October of 1996
Gigaflops sustained performance on a space science application for cost under $50K.
MSFC CDDF
SM050701-1640
Sandy Montgomery/SD71
MSFC CDDF
7 Slave Node(s)
4U Rackmount ATX Case with 250 Watt UL Power Supply
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD
Dolphin Interconnect’s Wulfkit
4U Rackmount ATX Case with 250 Watt UL Power Supply
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III
Dual Processor, 1 Ghz Intel Pentium III, 512 MB RAM, 20 GB HD
32x CD-R/W, SVGA with 32 MB, Tape back-up
Dolphin Interconnect’s Wulfkit
PVM, MPICH, LAM-MPI Communication Libraries
ScaLAPACK with ATLAS Libraries
Portable Batch System (PBS)
Lesstiff, Mesa (OpenGL), IBM Data Explorer
SCA Linda (4 CPUs)