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| NPAC supports HPC migration of Counter Minefield Simulation CMS with both parallel and distributed computing technologies |
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HPCMO FMS PET Support for CMS by Wojtek Furmanski, Syracuse University for Keith Snively, E-OIR Measurements, Inc.
Background
More on our FMS Projects
Parallel CMS: Goals
Parallel CMS: Approach
Parallel CMS: Status
Planned SC98 Demo
HPC CMS: Planned Next Steps
Next Steps: Support for Coarse Grain HLA
Next Steps: Research Into Fine Grain HLA
Next Steps: CMS on Commodity Clusters
Next Steps: WebHLA based CMS Training
Next Steps: CMS Links with FMS Systems
FMS Links: CMS and E-ModSAF
FMS Links: CMS and HPC RTI
FMS Links: CMS and JSIMS
FMS Links: CMS and SBA
Early Screens from PET FMS Training Space
FMS Training Space: Screens
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HPCMO PET FMS support for CMS - Summary and Outlook
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| We lead academic component (called PET for Programming Environments and Training) of the FMS (Forces Modeling and Simulation) CTA within the DoD HPC Modernization Program. |
| Our support comes from ARL (Maryland) and CEWES (Mississippi) MSRCs. |
We work on a set of small FMS PET tasks including
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WebHLA - builds components of DMSO HLA 1.3 on top of Web / Commodity Technologies. Includes:
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| Web based Distance Training for FMS users |
| HPC RTI - High Performance RTI on top of SPEEDES (in collaboration with Metron, Inc.) |
| Parallel CMS - porting CMS to Origin2000 |
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| Provide support for large minefields (with 1,000,000 mines and more) |
| Port current CMS to Origin2000 |
| Explore the use Commodity Clusters (Linux+NT) |
| Use CMS as M&S testbed for WebHLA components such as Object Web RTI, HPC RTI, DirectX front-ends |
| Explore CMS linkages with other FMS projects / users |
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| Performance critical CMS computation: compare vehicle PDU and mine location in a loop over all mines |
| Parallelize using Origin2000 C++ compiler pragmas such as pfor to decompose this loop over processors |
Two approaches being explored:
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| CMS code is running on Origin2000 at ARL MSRC and is being optimized/parallelized |
| ModSAF based vehicle simulations are running at SGI workstations at Syracuse. |
| MBONE connectivity between Syracuse and Aberdeen established and the base CMS demos are working |
| Parallel CMS code is compiled and being tested |
| Simple 3D visualization is under development. |
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We intend to demonstrate very preliminary version of Metacomputing CMS at SC98 this Nov including:
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Our front-end under development includes:
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| Support for coarse grain HLA (end of Nov 98) |
| Research into fine grain HLA (Winter 98/99) |
| Port parallel CMS to commodity clusters (early 99) |
| WebHLA based interactive CMS training (mid 99) |
| Linkages with FMS CHSSI systems and users : E-ModSAF, HPC RTI, SPEEDES, JSIMS (late 99) |
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| We will wrap ModSAF and CMS simulation modules as coarse grain HLA federates. |
| We will use our Object Web RTI to replace MBONE/multicast by RTI/TCP and to repackage CMS as HLA-compliant federation. |
| Initial experiments will use our WebHLA software. Later on, we will also include RPR FOM, and official HLA support for ModSAF and CMS as they become available. |
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| At the fine grain object level, not clear how to efficiently map mines, components or minefields into SOM objects, FOM objects and federates. |
| Brigges et al. suggest that RTI should be extended to accommodate the CMS users needs |
| We intend to address it using our Object Web RTI where we control source code and can freely experiment with extensions. |
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| We are building and experimenting with commodity clusters at Syracuse including Linux and NT nodes |
| Our Linux cluster will run Beowulf which supports DSM (Distributed Shared Memory) |
| We intend to port Parallel CMS from Origin2000 platform to the DSM platform on our cluster and to experiment with scalability, high availability etc. |
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| We intend to build Web based training tools for CMS, including various tasks roles such as commander, minefield designer, vehicle driver, breach operation engineer etc. |
| WebHLA will offer natural framework including DirectX multimedia front-ends linked with flexible OW-RTI middleware and HPC CMS backends (running on Origin2000 and Clusters) |
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| We are collaborating with FMS CHSSI and we develop WebHLA based training for emergent FMS systems. |
We will use CMS as a testbed which will effectively create more CMS links with FMS systems and the associated user and application domains such as:
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| FMS-2 develops E-ModSAF - a high performance shared memory (Origin2000) based extended version of ModSAF. |
| We will develop WebHLA based E-ModSAF training (starting spring 99) |
| Parallel CMS could be a natural initial application focus for such a training, given the role of ModSAF support for terrain and vehicle simulation in the current CMS. |
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| FMS-5 develops HPC RTI - a high performance RTI on top of SPEEDES simulation kernel |
| We participate in this project and provide HLA experience based on our Object Web RTI implementation |
| We will use CMS as an application testbed for OW-RTI, HPC RTI and their interoperability for Metacomputing simulations. |
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| We are collaborating with Jeff Wallace, SPAWAR who is member of AMG and technical director of JSIMS Maritime. |
| In FMS-4, Wallace develops Parallel IMPORT - a high level high performance simulation language on top of SPEEDES. |
| We will develop Parallel IMPORT Training and use CMS as application testbed. |
| IMPORT and SPEEDES are used by JSIMS and we will package CMS to federate with JSIMS entities. |
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| We are exploring the use of WebHLA as a collaboratory framework for Simulation Based Acquisition. |
| In particular, we presented several papers during the recent ITEA Workshop on HPC in Aberdeen, MD. |
| FMS-2 develops TEMPO/Thema for SDB/SBA applications, to be further strengthen by HPC RTI |
| We intend to address countermine device engineering tasks in the Parallel CMS framework, integrated with WebHLA based collaborative authoring towards SBA |
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| HLA/RTI admits both live and synthetic federates - hence it offers natural support for interactive hands-on distance training in M&S software development |
| WebHLA integrates RTI with Web/Commodity technologies and offers attractive Web based framework for distance training |
| Trainees, Trainers and Target Systems are mapped on individual WebHLA federates and suitably synchronized via RTI Management Services |
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| We illustrate FMS Training Space under development on a set of Web browser screendumps |
| We use IE4 browser front-end, IIS + JWORB + OW RTI middleware, Access/SQL Server databases, Active Server Pages for dynamic HTML generation |
| Current focus is on database support for software documentation (SPEEDES, CMS, RTI, ModSAF) |
| Next step: use OW RTI to deliver interactive simulation training (e.g. CMS, ModSAF or SPEEDES as WebHLA training federates) |
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| Late start for PET FMS (licenses, accounts etc.) in `97 |
| Good progress so far in `98 on various fronts |
| Object Web RTI operational, parallel CMS in works |
| Website in progress: http://bombay.npac.syr.edu/fms |
| ~15 conf papers, book chapter and book in progress |
| SIW Fall 98 paper on WebHLA (SIW-98F-2316) |
| WebHLA based Metacomputing (multi-MSRC) FMS Traninng with Parallel CMS as Application Testbed planned for `99 |