IJSECS-4-007


PARALLEL INTEGRATION ALGORITHM AND ITS USAGE FOR A PRACTICAL SIMULATION OF SPACECRAFT ATTITUDE MOTION

Ravil' Kudermetov

Computer Systems and Networks Dept., Zaporizhzhya National Technical University,
69063, Zhukovsky str., 64, Zaporizhzhya, Ukraine.
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ABSTRACT
Nowadays multi-core processors are installed almost in each modern workstation, but the question of these computational resources effective utilization is still a topical one. In this paper the four-point block one-step integration method is considered, the parallel algorithm of this method is proposed and the Java programmatic implementation of this algorithm is discussed. The effectiveness of the proposed algorithm is demonstrated by way of spacecraft attitude motion simulation. The results of this work can be used for practical simulation of dynamic systems that are described by ordinary differential equations. The results are also applicable to the development and debugging of computer programs that integrate the dynamic and kinematic equations of the angular motion of a rigid body.


Keywords: parallel computing, multi-core processors, multi-threading, hyper-threading, speedup, spacecraft attitude motion

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