Title:

PET FMS demos, including Parallel Minefield Simulation (CMS),
JWORB (Java Web Object Broker) based RTI and WebHLA Infrastructure

Description:

We present a set of demonstrations of PET FMS (Forces Modeling and Simulation)
modules under development at Syracuse, including Parallel CMS, Object Web RTI
and WebHLA based interactive training and authoring tools.

Parallel CMS is our port to the Origin2000 platform of the Comprehensive
Mine Simulation (CMS) System under development by the Night Vision Lab
at Ft. Belvoir, VA. The system simulates a broad spectrum of minefields,
their components and individual mine technologies, and it cooperates with 
ModSAF that is used to support terrain databases and simulation of vehicles
propagating through terrain areas with minefield obstacles.
At Syracuse, we are building parallel version of the CMS module to run
on the Origin2000 platform and we are also developing a Windows NT based
commodity visualization front-end based on Microsoft DirectX/Direct3D
interactive multimedia technologies. In this metacomputing demo, we will
attempt to integrate the following modules: a) an early version of our 
Parallel CMS running at ARL MSRC in Aberdeen, MD; b)  a set of ModSAF 
vehicles running on a workstation cluster  at Syracuse; and 
c) our visualization front-end running on NT laptops in Orlando.

JWORB (Java Web Object Request Broker) is new middleware technology from
Syracuse that enables distributed objects based Web computing by offering
a uniform software bus that integrates Web HTTP and CORBA IIOP protocols.
We have recently developed Object Web RTI - a full implementation of 
DMSO RTI 1.3 packaged as a Java/CORBA based JWORB service. We also specified 
our 3-tier WebHLA architecture that builds DMSO HLA on the pervasive 
Web base and it includes: a) Commodity Front-Ends such as DirectX Multimedia, 
b) Object Web RTI middleware; and c) JWORB encapsulated FMS simulation modules. 
We will present early WebHLA demos of OW-RTI for DMSO Jager game and 
of our OMDT-style FOM/SOM authoring tool OMBuilder with XML scripting
support, constructed by VBA extension of the Microsoft Excel control.

Metacomputing support for CMS - Comprehensive Minefield Simulation

CMS is an advanced DIS system under development by the
Nigh Vision Lab at Ft. Belvoir, VA. CMS simulates a broad
spectrum of mines, minefields and countermines and it cooperates
with ModSAF based terrain and vehicle simulators. Modern
warfare requires minefields of millions and more mines and
the associated simulations require High Performance Computing
support. Syracuse University is building Metacomputing CMS
by porting the CMS module to Origin2000 and linking it with 
a collection of distributed simulators handling terrain, vehicles
and visualization. Current demo illustrates initial capabilities
of the system and it includes: a) Parallel CMS running on Origin2000
at ARL MSRC; b) a set of ModSAF vehicles running at Syracuse
workstations; and c) visualization front-ends including Mak Stealth
and in-house made PC/Direct3D based CMS viewer. Work is under way
to provide HLA based federation support and to include
HPC resources at CEWES MSRC.


Demos:

1) OMDTBuilder 

2) Donuts with Automatic Interaction Generator through Web Interface
   To reveal the OWRTI Functionality.

3) CMS demo with Origin2000 & DirectX Output
   JDIS for direct performance analysis.
   DirectX based Visual front end has DIS PDU parse capability.

4) HeartBeat Demo from Ankur(?) 
   To show the possible usage of RTI Middleware for Cluster Management
   purposes.

5) WebFlow Demos(?)