REFERENCES -- FMS

1. Geoffrey C. Fox, Ph. D., Wojtek  Furmanski, Ph. D., Ganesh 
Krishnamurthy, Hasan T. Ozdemir,  Zeynep  Odcikin-Ozdemir, 
Tom A.  Pulikal, Krishnan Rangarajan, Ankur Sood, " Using 
WebHLA to Integrate HPC FMS Modules with Web/Commodity 
based Distributed Object Technologies of CORBA, Java, COM 
and XML", In Proceedings of the Advanced Simulation 
Technologies Conference ASTC 99, San Diego, April 99.

HLA standards for interoperability between various DoD 
Modeling and Simulation paradigms are being enforced in parallel 
with the rapid onset of new Object Web / Commodity standards for 
distributed objects and componentware, emergent at the crossroads 
of CORBA, COM, Java, and XML technologies. WebHLA 
explores synergies between and integrates both trends by offering 
Object Web based implementation of the HLA framework. Our 
goal is to deliver a uniform platform that facilitates conversion of 
legacy codes to and development of new codes in compliance with 
HLA, HPC and Object Web standards. We outline here the overall 
design of WebHLA, we summarize the system components 
prototyped so far and we illustrate our approach for one HPC FMS 
application -  Parallel CMS (Comprehensive Mine Simulator) - in 
the area of large scale minefield simulation and countermine 
engineering.

2. G. Fox, W. Furmanski, G. Krishnamurthy, H. Ozdemir, Z. 
Ozdemir, T.Pulikal, K. Rangarajan and A. Sood, "WebHLA as 
Integration Platform for FMS and other Metacomputing 
Application Domains", In Proceedings of the DoD HPC Users 
Group Conference, Monterey, CA, June 8-15, 1999.

High Level Architecture (HLA)  standards for interoperability 
between various Modeling and Simulation paradigms are being 
enforced by the DoD in parallel with the rapid onset of new Object 
Web / Commodity standards for distributed objects and 
componentware, emergent at the crossroads of CORBA, COM, 
Java, and XML technologies. WebHLA explores synergies 
between and integrates both trends by offering Object Web based 
implementation of the HLA framework. Our goal is to deliver a 
uniform platform that facilitates conversion of legacy codes to and 
development of new codes in compliance with HLA, HPC and 
Object Web standards. In this paper:  a) we outline the overall 
design of WebHLA; b) we summarize the system components 
prototyped so far; c) we illustrate our approach for one HPC FMS 
application - Parallel CMS (Comprehensive Mine Simulator) - in 
the area of large scale minefield simulation and countermine 
engineering; and finally d) we describe initial steps within our 
WebHLA based approach towards more general purpose 
Metacomputing, initially driven by FMS applications but 
applicable also for other CTAs within the HPC Modernization 
Program.

3. CRPC Book Chapter, Morgan-Kaufmann 2000 (in progress): 
WebHLA based Metacomputing Environment for Forces Modeling 
and Simulation

We discuss here the use of HPC for the DoD Modeling and 
Simulation, addressed by the Forces Modeling and Simulation 
(FMS) Computational Technology Area (CTA) within the DoD 
HPC Modernization Program. Syracuse University acts as a 
technical lead of the academic part, PET (Programming 
Environments and Training) of the FMS CTA and we provide 
assistance for the FMS users both in the infrastructure and 
application development sectors. Our approach presented here 
explores synergies among and integrates distributed object 
standards emerging from industry (CORBA), Web (Java, XML) 
and the DoD (HLA). More specifically, we developed a 3-tier 
WebHLA environment that offers standards based plug-and-play 
support both for the back-end HPC simulation modules and for the 
front-end Web/Commodity interfaces. In this section, we overview 
DoD Modeling and Simulation domain from the perspective of 
HPC, we summarize the High Level Architecture (HLA) standard, 
we outline our WebHLA environment and we illustrate its use for 
building a metacomputing level battlefield simulation that involves 
large scale minefields (of order of million mines).