Development of the Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories (POST) began in the 1970s. Since then, it has become widely utilized across NASA, industry, and academia to solve a variety of atmospheric ascent and entry problems. Its successor, POST2, has undergone many upgrades since its release in the 1990s. Recently, there has been an increasing desire to take advantage of the advances in parallel computing for both offline and online systems. Thus, modifications were made to allow POST2 to simulate multiple trajectories simultaneously without adversely affecting results. This capability is leveraged to calculate optimization solutions in parallel as opposed to sequentially. A demonstration of the benefits is presented using a small set of POST2 regression tests, as well as a project simulating a human-scale Lunar lander.


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    Title :

    Enabling Thread Safety and Parallelism in the Program to Optimize Simulated Trajectories II


    Contributors:

    Conference:

    AIAA Science and Technology (SciTech) Forum and Exposition 2023 ; 2023 ; National Harbor, MD, US


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


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    No indication


    Language :

    English





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