The computationally intensive portions of MicroCosm® are embodied in MicroCosm® Executive. To provide users with a timing benchmark for MicroCosm®, a Seasat 7-day orbit was computed using three different gravity models: GEM-T1 (36x36), JGM-3 (70x70) and EGM-96 (360x360). Atmospheric drag, solar radiation pressure and solid Earth tides were also modeled. The spacecraft ephemeris was output every 15 minutes and the numerical integration was performed using a 60 second step size and 11th order. MicroCosm® Executive utilized approximately 24 MB of memory when processing with the EGM-96 gravity model instead of the approximately 2 MB of memory required for the smaller gravity models. A GPS precision orbit determination (POD) was also performed on these same computers. This POD determined the orbits of 22 GPS SV’s using 155,569 dual frequency double difference carrier phase measurements from 24 GPS receivers. A total of 2303 parameters were simultaneously adjusted including 132 orbit elements, 22 radiation coefficients, 66 GPS Y-bias accelerations, 183 tropospheric scale biases and 1900 carrier phase ambiguity biases. The results of these comparison are presented below:
| Computer Used | Execution Time | Sample Execution |
|---|---|---|
| HP 9000™ Model 782 w/ HP-UX™ 11.0, 200 MHz PA-RISC 8200 and 256 MB Memory. Computer was new in Dec 1998. |
4.99 Seconds 14.29 Seconds 594.56 Seconds 5870.06 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| Silicon Graphics Fuel w/ IRIX® 6.5, 700 MHz MIPS R16000 and 1.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in March 2004. |
2.48 Seconds 9.79 Seconds 309.32 Seconds 1803.62 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| Sun Blade 2000 w/ Solaris® 8, 1.2 GHz SPARC III Cu and 1.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in Sep 2003. |
1.93 Seconds 6.66 Seconds 127.74 Seconds 942.20 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| Sony GRX600P Laptop w/ MS-Windows Xp Pro, 2.0 GHz Mobile Intel Pentium 4-M and 1.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in Dec 2002. |
1.00 Seconds 3.11 Seconds 156.66 Seconds 561.61 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| DELL Precision 530 w/ MS-Windows Xp Pro, Dual 1.7 GHz Intel Xeon and 1.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in Aug 2001. |
1.42 Seconds 5.31 Seconds 112.39 Seconds 690.34 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| SGI Altix Prism w/ SUSETM Linux® 9.0, Dual 1.3 GHz Intel Itanium2 and 4.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in Jan. 2006. |
0.69 Seconds 1.97 Seconds 40.08 Seconds 398.81 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
| Sun Sunfire X2200 w/ Solaris® 10, Dual-core 1.8 GHz AMD64® and 2.0 GB Memory. Computer was new in Mar. 2007. |
0.7 Seconds 2.4 Seconds 86.1 Seconds 394.4 Seconds |
GEM-T1 (36x36) JGM-3 (70x70) EGM-96 (360x360) GPS POD w/ JGM-3 (12x12) |
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