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Welcome to NAS Technical Reports. Below is a list of NAS technical reports for the year of 1997, with links to electronic versions of the reports.


TECHNICAL REPORTS

The Automated Instrumentation and Monitoring System (AIMS) Version 3.2 Users' Guide
Jerry Yan, Melisa Schmidt, and Cathy Schulbach
+ NAS-97-001 (PDF-83KB)

A Portable MPI Implementation of the SPAI Preconditioner in ISIS++
Stephen T. Barnard and Robert L. Clay
+ NAS-97-002 (PDF-182KB)(PS-168KB)

Analysis and Optimization of Software Pipeline Performance on MIMD Parallel Computers
Rob F. Van der Wijngaart, Sekhar R. Sarukkai, and Pankaj Mehra
+ NAS-97-003 (PDF-942KB)(PS-1.87MB)

RANS-MP: A Portable Parallel Navier-Stokes Solver
Rob F. Van der Wijngaart and Maurice Yarrow
+ NAS-97-004 (PDF-100KB)(PS-294KB)

Communication Studies of DMP and SMP Machines
Andrew Sohn and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-97-005 (PDF-90KB)(PS-340KB)

Formation of Carbon Nanotube Based Gears: Quantum Chemistry and Molecular Mechanics Study of the Electrophilic Addition of o-Benzyne to Fullerenes, Graphene, and Nanotubes
Richard Jaffe, Jie Han, and Al Globus
+ NAS-97-006 (PDF-160KB)

Tetrahedral and Hexahedral Mesh Adaptation for CFD Problems
Rupak Biswas and Robert C. Strawn
+ NAS-97-007 (PDF-3.2MB)(PS-6.48MB)

Efficient Load Balancing and Data Remapping for Adaptive Grid Calculations
Leonid Oliker and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-97-008 (PDF-490KB)(PS-8.77MB)

HARP: A Fast Spectral Partitioner
Horst D. Simon, Andrew Sohn, and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-97-009 (PDF-70KB)(PS-287KB)

Application-Controlled Demand Paging for Out-of-Core Visualization
Michael Cox and David Ellsworth
+ NAS-97-010 (PDF-137KB)

Improved Boundary Conditions for Cell-centered Difference Schemes
Rob F. Van der Wijngaart and Goetz H. Klopfer
+ NAS-97-011 (PDF-209KB)(PS-714KB)

Efficacy of Code Optimizations on Cache-based Processors
Rob F. Van der Wijngaart
+ NAS-97-012 (PDF-197KB)(PS-1.43MB)

Second Evaluation of Job Queuing/Scheduling Software: Phase 1 Report
James Patton Jones and Cristy Brickell
+ NAS-97-013 (PDF-175KB)(PS-280KB)

Adaptive Load-Balancing Algorithms Using Symmetric Broadcast Networks
Sajal K. Das, Daniel J. Harvey, and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-97-014 (PDF-1.0MB)(PS-629KB)

Toroidal Single Wall Carbon Nanotubes in Fullerene Crop Circles
Jie Han
+ NAS-97-015 (PDF-1.7MB)(PS-3.54MB)

Machine Phase Fullerene Nanotechnology
Al Globus, Charles Bauschlicher, Jie Han, Richard Jaffe, Creon Levit, and Deepak Srivastava
+ NAS-97-016 (PDF-56KB)

Analysis of 2D Torus and Hub Topologies of 100Mb/s Ethernet for the Whitney Commodity Computing Testbed
Kevin T. Pedretti and Samuel A. Fineberg
+ NAS-97-017 (PDF-289KB)(PS-1.62MB)

Charon Toolkit for Parallel, Implicit Structured-Grid Computations: Literature Survey and Conceptual Design
Rob F. Van der Wijngaart
+ NAS-97-018 (PDF-181KB)(PS-192KB)

PLUM: Parallel Load Balancing for Adaptive Unstructured Meshes
Leonid Oliker and Rupak Biswas
+ NAS-97-020 (PDF-1.2MB)(PS-2.32MB)

Experiments with Repartitioning and Load Balancing Adaptive Meshes
Rupak Biswas and Leonid Oliker
+ NAS-97-021 (PDF-554KB)(PS-999KB)

Numerical Schemes for the Hamilton-Jacobi and Level Set Equations on Triangulated Domains
Timothy J. Barth and James A. Sethian
+ NAS-97-022 (PDF-8.7MB)(PS-44.8MB)

Predicting Cost/Performance Trade-offs For Whitney: A Commodity Computing Cluster
Jeffrey C. Becker, Bill Nitzberg and Rob F. Van der Wijngaart
+ NAS-97-023 (PDF-87KB)(PS-225KB)

A Scalable Software Architecture Booting and Configuring Nodes in the Whitney Commodity Computing Testbed
Samuel A. Fineberg
+ NAS-97-024 (PDF-99KB)(PS-432KB)

Analysis of 100Mb/s Ethernet for the Whitney Commodity Computing Testbed
Samuel A. Fineberg and Kevin T. Pedretti
+ NAS-97-025 (PDF-331KB)(PS-1.88MB)

Middleware for Building Distributed Applications Infrastructure
Rod Fatoohi, David McNab, and David Tweten
+ NAS-97-026 (PDF-149KB)(PS-885KB)

Implementation of the NASA Metacenter: Phase 1 Report
James Patton Jones
+ NAS-97-027 (PDF-163KB)(PS-143KB)

Simulation of Ultra-Small Electronic Devices: The Classical-Quantum Transition Regioni
Bryan A. Biegel
+ NAS-97-028 (Framemaker Version)

NASA Applications of Molecular Nanotechnology
Al Globus, David Bailey, Jie Han, Richard Jaffe, Creon Levit, Ralph Merkle, and Deepak Srivastava
+ NAS-97-029 (PDF-80KB)

On the Khintchine Constant
David Bailey, Jonathan M. Borwein, and Richard E. Crandall
+ NAS-97-030 (PDF-219KB)(PS-180KB)

NAS Applications and Advanced Architectures
David Bailey, Rupak Biswas, and Rob Van der Wijngaart
+ NAS-97-031 (PDF-116KB)(PS-106KB)

Communication Improvement for the LU NAS Parallel Benchmark: A Model for Effi cient Parallel Relaxation Schemes
Maurice Yarrow and Rob Van der Wijngaart
+ NAS-97-032 (PDF-120KB)(PS-114KB)


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