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In recent decades, the state of the art for simulation of the broad range of plasma phenomena, from low temperature plasmas for lighting and materials processing, to the beams and waves, to high energy density plasmas, has advanced significantly. A key ch

The cancellation of non-cooperative interfering sources is of vital interest to military communications that have experienced, and will continue to experience, disruptions through intentional (electronic warfare) and unintentional interference. In the absence of knowledge about the interfering signals, communication systems treat interference and noise equally, and ignore the fact that these two a ...

A new and innovative approach to individual water purification is needed that incorporates: a) an RO Membrane technology that allows much higher flow rate for a given size and weight of membrane; b) an improved pumps that allows 10X higher flow rate relative to products on the market today; c) improved pre-filters for found waters with very high suspended solids and d) an improved water polishing ...

This project seeks to overcome the barriers to leveraging advanced field programmable gate array (FPGA) devices, and to enable revolutionary new levels of productivity, robustness, and design optimization in FPGA-driven implementation. We focus on the broad domain of digital signal processing (DSP) applications, which encompasses many areas of great importance to the DoD, including Radar, Ladar, a ...

A new class of high-performance, low-SWaP computational devices is emerging based on increasingly diverse architectures. This diversity is improving performance, but comes at the cost of increased programming complexity. Each architecture requires variances in programming environment and model, typically distinguished by the type of parallelism supported by the hardware, limiting software portabil ...

Graphs are an exceptional data structure for representing knowledge and relationships between facts. There are various frameworks for creating, modifying, and traversing graphs in software. These frameworks provide an abstraction over the physical representation of graphs on disk. Usually, the graphs are modeled physically as tables. The schema or layout of these tables significantly impacts the ...

This research effort will develop an OpenCL Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) hardware acceleration Application Programming Interface (API) capable of enabling existing graph analytic APIs (e.g. GraphLab, GraphCT) to leverage a scalable, GPU-based hardware platform to significantly improve the performance of graph analytics including graph traversal and Breadth First Search (BFS). The use of OpenCL pro ...

Graph analytics is a key component in identifying emerging trends and threats in many real-world applications. Large-scale graph analytics frameworks provide a convenient and highly scalable platform for developing algorithms to analyze large datasets. Although conceptually scalable, these techniques exhibit poor performance on modern computational hardware. Another model of graph computation has ...

This proposal is aimed at developing an extremely light-weight and affordable Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) for use on of DARPAs Mach 10 Experimental Space plane (XS-1) and other Expendable Hypersonic Vehicles launched from the XS-1 platform. Mentis Sciences, Inc. (Mentis) proposes to partner with Aspen Aerogels, Inc. (Aspen) to develop a structurally-sound TPS by encapsulating and curing low ...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being used extensively by the military for operations in theatre, but they are largely utilized in a remotely piloted function.In particular, for smaller UAVs (which are now ubiquitous in military operations), added autonomy would make them much more useful.Furthermore, current FAA regulations make commercial operation of UAVs very difficult and expensive, and a ...