During the development of our program we used a Sun Microsystems Ultra 1, the GNU's not UNIX (GNU) C compiler, and the GNU debugger (gdb) to debug the program. To run our program we used the Blue Mountain Supercomputing Platform at Los Alamos National Laboratories. This supercomputer is a cluster of Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI) Origin 2000s connected through a High Performance Parallel Interface (HIPPI) network. Each node has from 32 to 128 195MHz R10000 MIPS processors and from 4 gigabytes (GB) to 16GB of memory. The cluster has a total of 768 processors and 1.7 terabytes of disk space. We used various UNIX utilities including MPEG Encode, pixie, emacs, and vi to produce output, evaluate, and edit the program. We also used Micro$oft Word and Micro$oft Excel to produce the report and graphs. In addition to electronic materials we also employed the use of several books at the New Mexico State University (NMSU) Library.


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