Treffer: Onesaf Implementation On High Performance Computing Systems

Implementing One Semi Automated Forces (OneSAF®) (Department of the Army) on massively parallel, distributed high performance computing (HPC) systems has the potential to create large-scale events. To achieve this, users have been exploring the scalability of OneSAF in the context of distributed multi-node, multi-core systems versus the traditional networked workstation model. Such implementations would allow OneSAF to support analysis, acquisition, planning, testing, training, and experimentation on a larger scale. This paper will highlight some of the OneSAF HPC implementations to date and provide a summary of lessons learned for other users who may be interested in the use of HPCs for their forces modeling and simulation (FMS) applications. Implementations include: OneSAF on the UCF Stokes system (work by Army Research Laboratory and the University of Central Florida's Institute for Simulation and Training (UCF IST)); Communications-Electronics Research, Development, and Engineering) Center's (CERDEC's) Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaisance (C4ISR) and Network Modernization on Halle and Harold (U.S. Army Research Laboratory DoD Supercomputing Research Center, ARL DSRC); Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC) and Redstone Test Center (RTC) implementations for laboratory and hardware-in-the-loop testing support.