A Survey of Selected Algorithms Used in Military Applications from the Viewpoints of Dataflow and GaAs

TL;DR

This paper surveys ten military algorithms and analyzes their suitability for dataflow and GaAs architectures, highlighting their potential to meet strict military requirements for speed, reliability, and energy efficiency.

Contribution

It provides a comparative analysis of algorithms in the context of advanced architectures like dataflow and GaAs for military applications.

Findings

Dataflow and GaAs architectures are promising for military algorithms.

Most surveyed algorithms can benefit from these architectures.

Potential improvements in speed and energy efficiency are identified.

Abstract

This is a short survey of ten algorithms that are often used for military purposes, followed by analysis of their potential suitability for dataflow and GaAs, which are a specific architecture and technology for supercomputers on a chip, respectively. Whenever an algorithm or a device is used in military settings, it is natural to assume strict requirements related to speed, reliability, scale, energy, size, and accuracy. The two aforementioned paradigms seem to be promising in fulfilling most of these requirements.