Creating real-time high performance computing systems based on COTS technology

Various applications such as Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), Signal and Communication Intelligence (SIGINT, CMINT) and Real-Time Hardware-in-Loop (RT-HIL) have certain common needs. They all require high-speed in-line data processing with loop rates in the range of 1ms. This paper explores the use of PXI hardware platform and LabVIEW graphical development environment as a COTS based solution for addressing these needs of such Real-Time High Performance Computing (RT-HPC) applications.