Information Management Support for Interactive High-Performance Computing Frameworks

Abstract

The information management capabilities of the Joint Battlespace Infosphere (JBI) and the evolving 100X JBI were evaluated to support a network of remote computers. The network consisted of an interactive testbed of distributed high performance computers (HPCs) across the Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN). This Distributed Interactive High Performance Computing Testbed (DIHT) was developed to enable researchers to operate in near real time in a diverse HPC environment. This interactive environment included access to six remote Linux clusters, and allowed the rapid execution of parallelized software in real time. At peak times the DIHT is producing hundreds to thousands of information objects per second