Building reliable systems for space applications using swarm-array computing

Varghese, B. and McKee, G.T. (2009) Building reliable systems for space applications using swarm-array computing. In: 2009 computation world: future computing, service computation, cognitive, adaptive, content, patterns. IEEE, New York, pp. 527-532. ISBN 9780769538624

Abstract/Summary

Space applications demand the need for building reliable systems. Autonomic computing defines such reliable systems as self-managing systems. The work reported in this paper combines agent-based and swarm robotic approaches leading to swarm-array computing, a novel technique to achieve self-managing distributed parallel computing systems. Two swarm-array computing approaches based on swarms of computational resources and swarms of tasks are explored. FPGA is considered as the computing system. The feasibility of the two proposed approaches that binds the computing system and the task together is simulated on the SeSAm multi-agent simulator.