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Send them to service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu ***COSMIC E-MAIL UPDATE*** The following notes briefly describe new and updated programs that have been added to the COSMIC inventory in March, 1993. You may request full abstracts of the programs (we recommend you do this before you order) or additional information about any of our other services by contacting the COSMIC Customer Support staff. These programs are made available for re-use by domestic industries, government agencies, and universities under NASA's Technology Utilization Program. Source code is included and programs and documents may be copied without restriction for use by the acquiring institution unless otherwise noted. Educational discounts may apply. You may download the DOS version of the 1993 COSMIC catalog via anonymous ftp or via internet mailings. Online access via modem or telnet is also available. For more information, contact COSMIC customer support. **************************************************************** TRANSPORTABLE APPLICATIONS ENVIRONMENT PLUS, VERSION 5.2 SUN, DEC ULTRIX, Silicon Graphics, and IBM RS/6000 Versions Available Now; Other Machine Versions to Follow TAE (Transportable Applications Environment) Plus is an integrated, portable environment for developing and running interactive window, text, and graphical object-based application systems. The program allows both programmers and non-programmers to easily construct their own custom application interface and to move that interface and application to different machine environments. TAE Plus makes both the application and the machine environment transparent, with noticeable improvements in the learning curve. The main components of TAE Plus are: (1) the WorkBench, a What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) tool for the design and layout of a user interface; (2) the Window Programming Tools Package (WPT), a set of callable subroutines that control an application's user interface; and (3) TAE Command Language (TCL), an easy-to-learn command language that provides an easy way to develop an executable application prototype with a run-time interpreted language. TAE Plus requires MIT's X Window System, Version 11 Release 4, and the Open Software Foundation's Motif. The Workbench and WPTs are written in C++ and the remaining code is written in C. TAE Plus is available by license for an unlimited time period. The licensed program product includes the TAE Plus source code and one set of supporting documentation. the amount of disk space required to load the TAE Plus tar format tape is between 35Mb and 67Mb depending on the machine version. The recommended minimum memory is 12Mb. Each TAE Plus platform delivery tape includes pre-built libraries and executable binary code for that particular machine, as well as source code, so users do not have to do an installation. Users wishing to recompile the source will need both a C compiler and either GNU's C++ Version 1.39 or later, or a C++ compiler based on AT&T 2.0 cfront. TAE Plus 5.2 is expected to be available on media suitable for seven different machine platforms: 1) DEC VAX computers running VMS (TK50 cartridge in VAX BACKUP format), 2) IBM RS/6000 series workstations running AIX (.25 inch tape cartridge in UNIX tar format), 3) DEC RISC workstations running ULTRIX (TK50 cartridge in UNIX tar format), 4) HP9000 Series 300/400 computers running HP-UX (.25 inch HP-preformatted tape cartridge in UNIX tar format), 5) HP9000 Series 700 computers running HP-UX (HP 4mm DDS DAT tape cartridge in UNIX tar format), 6) Sun4 (SPARC) series computers running SunOS (.25 inch tape cartridge in UNIX tar format), and 7) SGI Indigo computers running IRIX (.25 inch IRIS tape cartridge in UNIX tar format). Please contact COSMIC for detailed information about the supported operating system and OSF/Motif releases required for each of these machine versions. An optional Motif Object Code License is available for the Sun4 version of TAE Plus 5.2. Site License Update fee, Program plus Documentation Government and University $275 Industry $500 Site License Initial Purchase, Program plus Documentation Government and University $550 Industry $1,000 **** discount applies for multiple machine versions *** AIR THERMODYNAMICS EQAIRS, from NASA Langley Research Center, is a set of FORTRAN 77 routines for computing the thermodynamic and transport properties of equilibrium air for temperatures from 100 to 30000 K. EQAIRS computes these properties over a pressure range of 1.0e-4 to 1.0e2 atm. The properties computed include enthalpy, total specific heat, compressibility factor, viscosity, and the total values of thermal conductivity and Prandtl number. The EQAIRS routines were written in the form of FORTRAN subroutines for easy adaptation to existing programs. The subroutines are commented and can be easily modified to suit the user's needs. In an attempt to maintain generality, a total of six separate subroutines are available for use: 1) ENTHLPY (specific enthalpy); 2) SPECIFC (total specific heat at constant pressure); 3) COMPRES (compressibility factor); 4) VISCSTY (viscosity); 5) CONDUCT (total thermal conductivity; and 6) PRANDTL (total Prandtl number). EQAIRS, inventory number LAR-14760, has been successfully implemented on a DEC VAX series computer running VMS, a Sun4 series computer running SunOS, and an IBM PC compatible computer running MS-DOS. Sample input/output and a sample driver program are provided. The standard distribution medium for EQAIRS is one 5.25 inch 360K MS-DOS format diskette. This program is also available on a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. Program $500; documentation $16. SPIN CONTROL IUS/SPINSIM from NASA Marshall Space Flight Center is a Six- Degree-of-Freedom simulation for exo-atmospheric flight of an Inertial Upper Stage launch vehicle. It assumes the stage is released in orbit at or near its desired inertial attitude, and is spinning slowly. The code models three phases: a coast phase in which further spin-up may occur, a burn stage during which a solid rocket motor burn injects the space craft into a transfer trajectory, and a final coast phase. IUS/SPINSIM takes into account the effects of the following: a reaction control system spinning the vehicle; SRM thrust buildup, decay, and misalignment; changing mass, center of gravity, principle moments of inertia, cross products of inertia, time derivatives of inertia; jet damping moments; and an oblate gravity model. Numerical integration of the equations of motion using a Runge- Kutta fourth order integrator and small step sizes is used to track the vehicle's position, velocity, attitude and spin rates. Instead of using Euler angles or the Direction Cosine Matrix, Quarternions are used to model the attitude and spinning of the vehicle. This eliminates the renormalization difficulties associated with either of the other methods. Program input is taken from a file, and output is to a print file and a data file suitable for use in plotting. IUS/SPINSIM, inventory number MFS-28811, is written in FORTRAN 77 for DEC VAX series computers running VMS. The standard distribution medium for this program is a 9track 1600 BPI magnetic tape in DEC VAX BACKUP format. It is also available on a TK50 tape cartridge in DEC VAX BACKUP format. Program $800; documentation $17. IMAGING The THRTOOL program from NASA Langley Research Center applies thresholding techniques to Sun rasterfiles. THRTOOL uses a method called local thresholding, or variable thresholding, in which thresholds are set dynamically according to local characteristics estimated from the observed intensity histograms of overlapping blocks within a digital image. THRTOOL allows for a choice of four thresholding methods. THRTOOL, inventory number LAR-14958, is written in C-language and has been implemented on Sun series and Silicon Graphics IRIS machines. Since this package processes Sun rasterfiles, a graphical interface that supports the viewing of Sun rasterfiles would be helpful in visualizing results; however, the package will run without the viewing capability. The standard distribution medium for this package is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. It is also available on a 3.5 inch diskette in UNIX tar format or on a .25 inch IRIS tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. Program $250; documentation $11. NEW SAMPLING TECHNIQUE HYPERSAMP, from NASA Kennedy Space Center, is a demonstration of an attribute sampling system developed to determine the minimum sample size required for any preselected value for consumer's risk and fraction of nonconforming. This statistical method can be used in place of MIL-STD-105E sampling plans when a minimum sample size is desirable, such as when tests are destructive or expensive. HYPERSAMP is a demonstration program and is limited to sampling plans with zero defectives in the sample (acceptance number of zero). Since it is only a demonstration program, the sample size determination is limited to sample sizes of 1500 or less. HYPERSAMP, inventory number KSC-11607, is a spreadsheet demonstration written for IBM PC compatible computers running DOS and Lotus 1-2-3 or Quattro Pro. This program is distributed on a 5.25 inch 360K MS-DOS format diskette, and the program price of $100 includes documentation. RADAR CALIBRATION POLCAL (Polarimetric Radar Calibration) from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a software tool intended to assist in the calibration of Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) systems. In particular, POLCAL calibrates Stokes matrix format data produced as the standard product by the NASA/Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) airborne imaging synthetic aperture radar (AIRSAR). POLCAL was designed to be used in conjunction with data collected by the NASA/JPL AIRSAR system (for more info contact Bruce Chapman, "chapman@alki.jpl.nasa.gov"). AIRSAR is a multifrequency (6 cm, 24 cm, and 68 cm wavelength), fully polarimetric SAR system which produces 12 x 12 km imagery at 10 m resolution. Many sources of error can lead to false conclusions about the nature of scatterers on the surface. By utilizing the backscatter measurements from either the corner reflectors or a well-known distributed target, POLCAL can correct the residual amplitude offsets in the various polarization channels and correct for the absolute gain of the radar system. POLCAL also gives the user the option of calibrating a scene using the calibration data from a nearby site. This allows precise calibration of all the scenes acquired on a flight line where corner reflectors were present. Construction and positioning of corner reflectors is covered extensively in the program documentation. In an effort to keep the POLCAL code as transportable as possible, the authors eliminated all interactions with a graphics display system. For this reason, it is assumed that users will have their own software for doing the following: (1) synthesize an image using HH or VV polarization, (2) display the synthesized image on any display device, and (3) read the pixel locations of the corner reflectors from the image. The only inputs used by the software (in addition to the input Stokes matrix data file) is a small data file with the corner reflector information. POLCAL, inventory number NPO-18954, is written in FORTRAN 77 for use on Sun series computers running SunOS and DEC VAX computers running VMS. It requires 4Mb of RAM under SunOS and 3.7Mb of RAM under VMS for execution. The standard distribution medium for POLCAL is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. It is also available on a 9-track 1600 BPI magnetic tape in DEC VAX FILES-11 format or on a TK50 tape cartridge in DEC VAX FILES-11 format. Other distribution media may be available upon request. Documentation is included in the price of the program. POLCAL 4.0 is a copyrighted work with all copyright vested in NASA. Program and documentation $200. INTELLIGENT DOCUMENTATION STANDARDS The Intelligent Documentation Management System (IDMS) was developed at NASA Lewis Research Center to assist Project Managers in implementing NASA's Software Management and Assurance Program's information system documentation standard known as NASA-STD-2100-91 (NASA STD, COS-10300). The standard consists of data item descriptions (DIDs), or templates, each of which governs a particular component of software documentation. For example, one DID governs the user's guide, another the quality assurance requirements, and so on. The DIDs are hierarchically interrelated to one another, forming a DID hierarchy, or inverted tree structure. It is up to the Project Manager (PM) for a given project to determine which of the DIDs apply to a particular project and which are not applicable. Also, if any one of the DIDs grows too large to be comfortably embedded as an in-line section of a parent document, the PM may roll it out as a separate volume, but must maintain traceability between this volume and its parent document. IDMS is a decision support system which automates the process of tailoring the DID hierarchy. IDMS, inventory number LEW-15589, is written in C-language for IBM PC series and compatible computers running MS-DOS. The program requires at least 5Mb of disk space and a VGA or EGA graphics display. The source code will only compile properly with include files from the Vermont Views software package (available from Vermont Creative Software, Richford, VT, 802/848- 7731); however, an executable is provided on the distribution medium. The executable requires at least 640K of RAM and MS-DOS v3.1 or higher. Printing of IDMS produced documents requires WordPerfect v5.0, or higher. The standard distribution medium for this program is a set of four 5.25 inch 1.2Mb MS-DOS format diskettes. The program price includes a copy of the NASA STD package (COS-10300) diskette as well as the IDMS documentation. Package price $300. VIEW FOR THE VAX The calculation of the radiation exchange between two gray, diffuse surfaces by the usual engineering method presents difficulties since it requires a full and precise description of both surfaces. Often the major difficulty in calculating the heat transfer rests with the accurate determination of the surface conditions. For multi-surface enclosure problems, or for radiation between surfaces whose mutual views are obstructed, the evaluation of the view factor is a major effort. For many situations, as in spacecraft or space structures, solar receivers, or industrial furnaces, estimates using graphical and numerical techniques are not adequate. Furthermore, in structures for which the changing position of the sun leads to different surfaces becoming radiantly important at different times, accurate determination of the viewfactor for all surfaces is particularly important. The family of computer codes, VIEW, has been created to accomplish this task. VIEW, developed for NASA Langley Research Center, is an interactive program that determines the viewfactors, graphically displays surfaces, and evaluates the solar irradiation of an assemblage of surfaces. The VIEW programs are available in two machine versions. The programs included in the IBM PC version of VIEW are written in FORTRAN 77, C-language and Assembly language for the IBM PC and compatibles. The programs included in the DEC VAX VMS version are written in FORTRAN 77. The graphic routines in the PC version require an EGA or VGA card, while those in the VMS version require a Tektronix 4010 display, a single pen HP plotter or a vt125 terminal. The memory requirement for the IBM PC version is 412K. For the VMS version, 1MB of RAM is required. The standard distribution medium for the PC version, inventory number LAR 14217, is a set of eleven 360K diskettes in MS-DOS format. The standard distribution medium for the VMS version , LAR-14468, is a 1600 BPI 9-track magnetic tape in DEC VAX BACKUP format. The VMS version is also available on a TK50 tape cartridge in DEC VAX BACKUP format. Program $3,000; documentation $56. LAS 5.0 for the VAX The Land Analysis System (LAS) is an image analysis system from NASA Goddard Space Flight Center that is designed to manipulate and analyze digital data in raster format and provide the user with a wide spectrum of functions and statistical tools for analysis. LAS offers these features under VMS with optional image display capabilities for IVAS and other display devices as well as the X-Windows environment. LAS provides a flexible framework for algorithm development as well as for the processing and analysis of image data. Users may choose between mouse- driven commands or the traditional command line input mode. LAS functions include supervised and unsupervised image classification, film product generation, geometric registration, image repair, radiometric correction and image statistical analysis. Data files accepted by LAS include formats such as Multi-Spectral Scanner (MSS), Thematic Mapper (TM) and Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer (AVHRR). The LAS application programs are integrated under version 4.1 of an interface called the Transportable Applications Executive (TAE). TAE 4.1 has four modes of user interaction: menu, direct command, tutor (or help), and dynamic tutor. In addition TAE 4.1 allows the operation of LAS functions using mouse-driven commands under the TAE-Facelift environment provided with TAE 4.1. These modes of operation allow users, from the beginner to the expert, to exercise specific application options. LAS, inventory number GSC-13075, is written in C-language and FORTRAN 77 for use with DEC VAX computers running VMS with approximately 16Mb of physical memory. This program runs under TAE 4.1. Since TAE 4.1 is not a current version of TAE, TAE 4.1 is included within the LAS distribution. Approximately 130,000 blocks (65Mb) of disk storage space are necessary to store the source code and files generated by the installation procedure for LAS and 44,000 blocks (22Mb) of disk storage space are necessary for TAE 4.1 installation. The only other dependencies for LAS are the subroutine libraries for the specific display device(s) that will be used with LAS/DMS (e.g. X-Windows and/or IVAS). The standard distribution medium for LAS is a set of two 9track 6250 BPI magnetic tapes in DEC VAX BACKUP format. It is also available on a set of two TK50 tape cartridges in DEC VAX BACKUP format. Program $2,000; documentation $415. GEMPAK 5.1, VAX Version GEMPAK is a general meteorological software package developed at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center. It includes programs to analyze and display surface, upper-air, and gridded data, including model output. There are very general programs to list, edit, and plot data on maps, to display profiles and time series, to draw and fill contours, to draw streamlines, to plot symbols for clouds, sky cover, and pressure tendency, and draw cross sections in the case of gridded data and sounding data. GEMPAK 5.1 is written in FORTRAN 77 and C-language and has been implemented on VAX computers under VMS and on computers running the UNIX operating system. During installation and normal use, this package occupies approximately 100Mb of hard disk space. The UNIX version of GEMPAK includes drivers for several graphic output systems including MIT's X Window System (X11,R4), Sun GKS, PostScript (color and monochrome), Silicon Graphics, and others. The VMS version of GEMPAK also includes drivers for several graphic output systems including PostScript (color and monochrome). The VMS version is delivered with the object code for the Transportable Applications Environment (TAE) program, version 4.1 which serves as a user interface. A color monitor is recommended for displaying maps on video display devices. Data for rendering regional maps is included with this package. The standard distribution medium for the UNIX version of GEMPAK 5.1 (inventory number GSC-13402) is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. The standard distribution medium for the VMS version of GEMPAK 5.1 (inventory number GSC- 13073) is a 6250 BPI 9-track magnetic tape in DEC VAX BACKUP format. The VMS version is also available on a TK50 tape cartridge in DEC VAX BACKUP format. Program $2,000; documentation $126. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SAMUEL, developed at the Naval Research Laboratory, is a heuristic learning program that uses genetic algorithms and other competition-based heuristics to improve its decision-making rules. The system actively explores alternative behaviors in simulation, and modifies its rules based on this experience. SAMUEL is designed for problems in which the payoff is delayed in the sense that payoff occurs only at the end of an episode that may span several decision steps. SAMUEL is particularly well-suited for learning strategies in competitive environments. Research with SAMUEL has focused on tasks such as predator-prey problems, tracking problems, and other models of conflict. SAMUEL is written in C-language for use on Sun series computers running SunOS (inventory number DOD-00101) and IBM PC compatibles running MS-DOS (inventory number DOD-00102). SAMUEL is available by license for an unlimited time period. The licensed program product includes the SAMUEL source code and one set of supporting documentation. Additional documentation may be purchased separately at the price indicated below. The program requires 2Mb of RAM for execution. Both a text-based and graphical user interface version are provided with the Sun version. The graphical user interface requires Solaris' OpenWindows Developer's Guide 2.0 or 3.0 (available from Sun Microsystems, 1- 800-873-7869) and Sun's OpenWindows version 2.0 or 3.0. Sample Sun-4 executables are provided for the text interface version. The DOS version has a command line interface. The standard distribution medium for the Sun version of SAMUEL is a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. The standard distribution medium for the DOS version is a set of two 360K MS-DOS format diskettes. The contents of the diskettes are compressed using the PKWARE archiving tools. The utility to unarchive the files, PKUNZIP.EXE, is included. The distribution media for both machine versions includes an electronic copy of the documentation in PostScript format. License fee $200. COSPAT\PATCOS UPDATE COSPAT/PATCOS is a set of four programs to interface COSMIC/NASTRAN with PATRAN. This suite of programs facilitates the transfer of data between COSMIC/NASTRAN, a general-purpose finite element analysis program, and PATRAN, a finite element pre- and postprocessor. PATCOS reads PATRAN neutral files and generates COSMIC/NASTRAN bulk data files. COSPAT reads COSMIC/NASTRAN bulk data files and generates PATRAN neutral files. COSPAT also reads COSMIC/NASTRAN UT1 files and generates PATRAN results files. The only difference between DOD-00099 and DOD-00100 is the distribution medium. The VAX version (DOD-00099) is available on a 9-track 1600 BPI magnetic tape in DEC VAX BACKUP format (standard distribution medium) or on a TK50 tape cartridge in DEC VAX BACKUP format. The standard distribution medium for the UNIX version (DOD-00100) is a .25 inch streaming magnetic (QIC-11) tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. Upon request, the UNIX version is also available on a 9-track 1600 BPI magnetic tape in UNIX tar format, a .25 inch streaming magnetic tape cartridge readable on an IRIS, Hewlett Packard, or IBM RS/6000 tape drive, or a 4mm DDS DAT tape cartridge in UNIX tar format. Documentation is included in the $200 price of the program. **************************************************************** Ordering COSMIC Catalogs and Software: The COSMIC Order Department accepts checks, official pre-printed purchase order forms, MasterCard, and VISA. To speed delivery, COSMIC will process purchase orders that are FAXed to (706) 542- 4807 and followed up with a mailed copy. Credit card orders may be called in to the Order Department at (706) 542-3265. Thank you for your continued interest: COSMIC The University of Georgia 382 East Broad Street Athens, GA 30602 Phone: (706) 542-3265 FAX: (706) 542-4807 Internet: service@cossack.cosmic.uga.edu **************************************************************** NEWS **************************************************************** FAST Support plus FASTdrivers for the IBM RS/6000. COSMIC's version of FAST, the Flow Analysis Software Tool from NASA Ames, runs on Silicon Graphics Iris workstations. Now Sterling Software, the company that developed FAST for NASA, offers full support for FAST. In addition to FAST support, COSMIC customers may be interested in Sterling FASTdrivers, a highly optimized overlay library that optimizes most functions of FAST for the IBM RS/6000 under AIX. For more information contact Sterling Software, 1121 San Antonio Road, Palo Alto, CA 94303. Phone (415) 964-9900. Fax (415) 969-3821. **************************************************************** CALENDAR **************************************************************** NASTRAN COLLOQUIUM The 21st NASTRAN User's Colloquium will be held April 26-30, 1993, in Tampa, Florida. Subjects include: Introduction to NASTRAN for Engineers (I & II) Seismic Analysis Automated Multi-Stage Substructuring DMAP Programming Normal Modes Analysis Goofs in Substructuring Using Quad4 and TRIA3 elements For more information call: Shirley Sanders COSMIC (706) 542-3265 ICAT/VET 93 NASA Johnson Space Center hosts a conference and exposition on Intelligent Computer-Aided Training (ICAT) and Virtual Environment Technology (VET) May 5 - 7, 1993. For exhibitor information, contact Mr. Don Meyers at phone (713) 283-3821 or fax (713) 283-3810. To submit a paper contact Mr. R. Bowen Loftin at phone (713) 483-8070 or fax (713) 244-5698. SPACE OPERATIONS, APPLICATIONS, AND RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM SOAR '93 will feature sessions on Robotics and Telepresence; Automation and Intelligent Systems; Human Factors; Life Sciences; and Space Maintenance and Servicing. August 5-7, 1993, Gulruth Center, NASA Johnson Space Center. Register through the University of Houston (713) 283-3030. TAW '93 The fifth Annual Thermal and Fluids Analysis Workshop will be hosted by NASA Lewis Research Center, August 16-20, 1993. Papers are invited in the areas of thermal control, refrigeration cycles, multiphase flows, computer code innovations, etc. A 400 word abstract should be sent to TAW '93, Mail Stop 86-14, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135. This conference also includes hands-on training in the use of several thermal analysis computer codes, including SINDA '85/FLUINT and TRASYS. For more information phone Dr. Doug Darling (216) 433-8115.