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Eli Research and Engineering Inc.

Eli Research and Engineering Inc. Presents Mechanized Software. with TOTAL T otal O bject-- T otal A ssembly L ine Information Systems Services. A Fundamental, not incremental change in Information Technology Architectures.

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Eli Research and Engineering Inc.

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  1. Eli Research and Engineering Inc. Presents Mechanized Software with TOTAL Total Object--Total Assembly Line Information Systems Services

  2. A Fundamental, not incremental change in Information Technology Architectures

  3. We examine ALTOPS, an architecture which is totally new to Information Processing, but which has been used by manufacturing since the beginning of the industrial revolution, to produce o High quality products at o High rates and low cost. And can be and often is totally mechanized

  4. ALTOPS A new Data Processing Architecture oUsing 100,000 or moreSimple Processing Modules simply connected (in different locations if desired) - - - oRunning at nanosecond rates, oConcurrently on any number and mix of application types, producing -- oCertifiablyCorrectResults produced at rates of 100,000 to 1,000,000 per second.

  5. BENEFITS OF ALTOPS Efficiency for Business o I. S. responsiveness. New applications running in hours or a few weeks. (Now.average time to develop new applications about 60 months. (Ref.1)) o Results rates 100-1000 times faster on most jobs. o Assured continuous operation, even during major system updates. o More efficient, responsive control of business processes

  6. BENEFITS OF ALTOPS Efficiency for Business o Automated accounts and audits of all I.S. activity. o Complete model of business Information System in I. S. Specifications enables o Rapid, accurate evaluation of system changes. o Rapid, accurate modeling of complex data and large models.

  7. BENEFITS OF ALTOPS Reduces I. S. Cost oReplaces Programming staff with a few MBA’s or experts in the business or industry. Typical saving of 80% of I. S. cost. (Ref. 1,2) o Saving on average new application, (coded locally) about $10,000,000 (Ref. 1) o Lower cost for system, cooling, less space.

  8. BENEFITS OF ALTOPS Highest Protection o Maximum Security and Privacy of Data, No “Virus”, “Bombs”, “Denial of Service” oSystem User cannot invade or discover Intellectual Property of job being used. oJob design owner cannot invade data of User. oSystem Owner cannot invade or discover Intellectual Property of job design or data.

  9. Background • Early “Tabulating machines” proved that: • Any class of problem can be solved on a • few different types of simple machines, simply connected. • Any number of machines could work together on any problem. • These were electro-mechanical machines • Running typically at 150 functions/minute.

  10. Background • In the early days of electronic computers: • The technology was so expensive only one processor could be afforded. • All jobs were necessarily run on this single processor. • A single computer time-shared system/job control and the problem calculation.

  11. Background o “Compilers”, “Job monitors”, then “Operating Systems” were invented. o “WINDOWS” and other current operating systems are direct derivatives. o Today’s microprocessor architectures are direct descendants of the early machines.

  12. Background o General purpose processors still use one very fast central processing unit (smaller than your little finger nail). o Virus and other invasions of the System are made possible by time-sharing System Control and Applications on a single processor.

  13. Background o Operating Systems and most programs are so complex that verification is not practicable (Ref. 3) Basic code of Windows 95 comprises 10,800,000 lines of C++ code. o A new 10,000 line program averages about 750 “high severity” defects. when delivered. (Ref. 1) o A C++ programmer spends 80% of effort removing “bugs”

  14. Background o “Cache misses” when the CPU must access disks for information greatly reduce the performance of conventional systems. o A cache miss rate of 0.1% reduces the effective performance of a 1 gigaHertz processor to slightly over 50 megaHertz. o The TOTAL architecture virtually eliminates cache misses giving efficient performance.

  15. ALTOPS Architecture based on hardware manufacturing models provides separate hardware for: o System control, o Storage and data management, oApplication management, o Application execution,

  16. ALTOPS oUsing 100,000 or moreSimple Processing Modules simply connected (in different locations if necessary) - - - oRunning at nanosecond rates, oConcurrently on any number and mix of application types producing oCertifiably correct Results produced at rates of 100,000 to 1,000,000 per second.

  17. ALTOPS (“Off-The-Shelf”) Design Study, not to Scale Stack 3 Stack 4 Disks Stack 1 Stack 2 3,600 giga- byte 5’ 6’ 6’ Machine has107,712 Function Units. Sustained performance potential 140 teraOps/sec. Final result rate, 100,000 instruction commercial job, ~90,000/second

  18. ALTOPS, as in hardware manufacturing , Requires: oAll system Components (processor and system control) o Materials (data), assemblies (information and applications) o Products (reports, screens, messages) to have Specifications and Accounts oBe Verified to conform to Specification.

  19. ALTOPS Enabling: (As in hardware manufacture) oReusable, interchangeable data, applications and application components. oAny number of processor nodes of any size or location to cooperate in producing any information product or class of information product. oAssembly Lineproduction, giving a result rate dependent only on the stepping rate of the line, not length. oResults 100,000’s to millions per second.

  20. ALTOPS Enabling: (As in hardware manufacture) o Hardware based automation of the system operation, o Hardware process nodes with function adjusted by parameters if desired, oUser applications composed of linked sets of standard, tested hardware modules. No “software”

  21. ALTOPS Enabling: (As in hardware manufacture) oPrefetching of data Virtually eliminating disk delay. oSelf repair in microseconds. (Tool failure on a factory floor is immediately detected, replaced and the process resumes.) oHardware automated Accounting and Audit of all System Contents, Use, Actions and Configuration.

  22. ALTOPS All User interaction is via interactive screens. Users’ View o Information request: User selects from menu: Class Identification and Instance (viz., date time group). oResponse in milliseconds o Run a Job: User selects Job I.D. from menu, fills in instances of data inputs, enters parameters if needed. oResponse in milliseconds

  23. ALTOPS CIO View o Authorize new user: Fill in standard screen, o Security authorization for department/information class, job class, . . . o Authorize entry of new Application: Verifies job design against spec., adds I.D., Assigns security authorizations. o Authorize entry of new data item. Verifies correct specification, class I.D., Assigns security authorizations.

  24. ALTOPS CIO View oRequest and review System Accounts and Audit records. o Modify System/System Function: Order new Function Units from Vendor, or Contact Vendor representative to enter new function code into System Unit ROMs oAuthorize entry of new Security Check Sum oEstablish and maintain the Classification Structure for the Data, Information, and Applications networks. oSpecify Enterprise Information System structure and performance requirements.

  25. ALTOPS Application Designer View oCreate Specification of Application Output oCreate Specification of Data/Information Element inputs, with reliability and accuracy requirement statements. oSpecify algorithm or process to implement application, in normal business terms. oGraphically select and connect System Function Modules (note) and existing Application Components to construct the application process.

  26. ALTOPS Application Designer View oRun the Application prototype on a separate Test Facility to confirm result is to Specification. oObtain authorization from C.I.O. to enter the application into the System.

  27. ALTOTOPS Some Performance Estimates of O-T-S ALTOPS (10 teraOp) oMatrix multiplication, conventional method, (assume 10,000 of chips are pipelined multipliers): For a 10,000x10,000x100 model: Single plane, 10 20 ms. Total model, 10 to 20 sec.

  28. ALTOPS Second Generation, (Wafer Scale integration) ALTOPS (3.5 PetaOps) oMatrix multiplication, conventional method, (assume 20,000 of chips are pipelined multipliers): For a 10,000x10,000x100 model: Single plane, 1 to 2 ms. Total model, 1 to 2 sec. o Note that due to the simple interconnections of the ALTOPS architecture, “Wafer Scale” integration is feasible.

  29. ALTOPS Second Generation, (Wafer Scale integration) ALTOPS (3.5 PetaOps) o Davis (Ref. 2) Referring to CERN experience and subsequent publications points out that conventional parallel machines tend to operate at about 10% rated peak rate due to fitting the algorithm to the single instruction, multiple device architecture. Massively Concurrent Machines (ALTOPS) overcome this problem and operate at high efficiency on any class of problem.

  30. (Note) Hardware Function Modules include: o Standard arithmetic and logic functions capable of assembly into any algorithm. o Applications or Application components specific to various classes of business or enterprise. o Standard accounting and audit functions.

  31. References include but are not limited to o Jones, Capers o Davis, Dr. Edward W. o Kendall, Robert o Edwards, Nathen P. o Kendall, Robert C., Lamb, Estol C.

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