Cooperative processing feasibility for SNAP-II (Shipboard Nontactical ADP Program II)
P.J. Halsey, L.D. Duncan, A.F. Huntley, J.K. Jr. Munro, A. F. Twitty · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1988
The Navy Management Systems Support Office (NAVMSSO) would like to improve the performance and transportability of the Harris/Shipboard Nontactical Automated Data Processing (ADP) Program II (SNAP-II) system and other NAVMASSO produced applications. The use of a technique called cooperative processing (microcomputer-to-mainframe connection package) was suggested as a way to achieve this improvement. NAVMSSO asked the Data Systems Engineering Organization (DSEO) to perform a feasibility study to determine the benefits cooperative processing would provide. An intensive review of the methodology and technology utilized in cooperative processing was performed. The SNAP-II application code was analyzed to determine the effort that would be involved in conversion from the existing SNAP-II host-bound environment to the PC/host cooperative processing environment. The DSEO team found that, due to the architecture of the SNAP-II subsystems, cooperative processing would not be a viable alternative to enhance system performance. The DSEO team determined that, before performance enhancement techniques could be selected, a comprehensive evaluation of the problems being experienced by the Harris system/SNAP-II application would be necessary.