{"title":"Stimulation of Live C4ISR Experimentation Environments by Using HPC Simulation","authors":"Jason Santiago","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.54","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.54","url":null,"abstract":"As the Army’s operational paradigm shifts toward Network-Centric Warfare (NCW), the use of high performance computing (HPC) assets to aid experimentation in Live, Virtual, and Constructive (L/V/C) environments has become increasingly valuable. Army networks are evolving from hundreds to thousands, to tens-of-thousands of communicating entities, which use an increasing variety of applications, host computers, routers, switches, and radio systems. Live test and evaluation of large, complex, C4ISR System of Systems (SoS) is quickly becoming impractical due to cost and component availability. Additionally, as the Army evolves its experimentation abilities, systems must not only be tested as individual systems, but must also be tested as a part of the larger Warfighter SoS capability. The use of an HPC-enabled L/V/C environment to aid in stimulating, scaling, and analyzing these C4ISR SoS technologies is a solution that PM C4ISR On-The-Move (OTM) leveraged heavily during experiments conducted at Fort Dix, NJ, during 2008.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122299890","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. Peters, S. Howington, O. Eslinger, J. Ballard, J. Fairley, R. Goodson, Virginia Carpenter
{"title":"Signature Evaluation for Thermal Infrared Countermine and IED Detection Systems: Large-Area Simulations in an Operational Computing Environment","authors":"J. Peters, S. Howington, O. Eslinger, J. Ballard, J. Fairley, R. Goodson, Virginia Carpenter","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.53","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.53","url":null,"abstract":"The countermine test bed (CTB) and accompanying tools provide a means to optimize thermal infrared sensor systems and automated target recognition algorithms. The CTB has been validated through a series of studies conducted since 2006. During that time, the capability of the CTB has been vastly expanded, particularly in regards to the size of the domain that can be modeled. The CTB consists of four independent models that are coupled through file transfers. Optimization of the system involves a scheduling problem whereby the processors are assigned to individual sub-models in accordance with their run times. The ground model and the ray caster dominate computations, with the other sub-models operating virtually as background processes.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126903979","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Radar Signature Prediction for Sensing-through-the-Wall by Xpatch and AFDTD","authors":"T. Dogaru, A. Sullivan, C. Kenyon, C. Le","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.55","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents computer simulations of Sensing-Through-the-Wall (STTW) radar for room imaging applications. The main purpose of our investigation is to validate the radar signature prediction codes used in this type of analysis, namely Xpatch and the Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD). Based on the electromagnetic simulation results, we build synthetic aperture radar (SAR) images of a complex room containing humans and furniture objects, for various look angles and polarizations. We compare the images obtained by the two modeling methods, demonstrating good accuracy for this type of application.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"75 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121865649","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simulation of Mach 3 Cylinder Flow Using Kinetic and Continuum Solvers","authors":"S. Dinavahi, E. Josyula","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.21","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.21","url":null,"abstract":"The objective of this work is to study the performance of the unified kinetic/continuum solver referred to as the Unified Flow Solver (UFS) for a Mach 3 flow past a cylinder by comparing its results from those of a traditional Navier-Stokes equation solver. The intention is to benchmark and validate UFS to appeal to a wider group of users interested in solving flow problems of practical applications in the kinetic-continuum flight regime. This unified computational tool is being developed under the sponsorship of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to solve both rarefied and continuum flow regimes. Some of the problems where such a solver would be used are re-entry vehicles, exhaust nozzle and plume flows, and MEMS/NANO devices, where a diverse range of conditions from continuum, to transition and rarefied flow regimes are encountered.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"39 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134223396","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Samsi, B. Guilfoos, H. Smith, J. Unpingco, A. Chalker
{"title":"A Java-Based Interface for Creating and Mining RDF Database","authors":"S. Samsi, B. Guilfoos, H. Smith, J. Unpingco, A. Chalker","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.76","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.76","url":null,"abstract":"The Resource Description Framework (RDF) language can be used to describe data and the relationships between different objects in the data. As larger amounts of data are generated, many applications in the Signal and Image Processing areas such as radar image processing, electromagnetics, etc., present users with the challenge of representing and mining the data. In many cases, this data resides on secure Department of Defense Supercomputing Resource Centers (DSRC). Our earlier work developed a Web interface for querying and searching this RDF data and also allowed users to transfer this data between DSRCs. In this paper, we describe the architecture improvements in the Web interface that make the application easier to deploy, maintain, and modify. The entire application has beenrefactored in an object-oriented manner, making it easier to customize and re-use parts of the application in other Java based tools. Additionally, we have developed a Java-based tool for creating the metadata associated with existing data. The RDF creation tool makes it easy for users to create RDF databases without the need to learn the intricacies of the RDF language. This new tool can also be integrated into the Web application thus allowing users to generate RDF databases for new data. Pilot studies were also conducted to enable the use of mpscp for high bandwidth data transfers, with promising results.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115543455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Vortex Detection Through the Visualization Toolkit","authors":"J. V. D. Zwaag, R. Vickery, R. Moorhead","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.66","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.66","url":null,"abstract":"Automatic vortex detection for turbo-machinery models is a complex problem but is a useful and needed tool for modelers and researchers. We have developed a suite of tools that provide access to several popular methods for vortex detection by implementing the techniques outlined in The \"Parallel Vectors \" Operator A Vector Field Visualization Primitive[1] by Ronald Peikert and Martin Roth. Our software was developed using the Visualization Toolkit (VTK) to provide these vortex detection capabilities to a wider range of researchers and to several existing visualization software packages, such as ParaView[2]. We added support for both unstructured and structured datasets and can take advantage of high performance computing (HPC) resources by utilizing VTK's multi-threading capabilities.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124442577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R. Podeszwa, B. Rice, Decarlos Taylor, F. Rob, K. Szalewicz
{"title":"Predictions of Properties of Energetic Materials from First Principles","authors":"R. Podeszwa, B. Rice, Decarlos Taylor, F. Rob, K. Szalewicz","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.38","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.38","url":null,"abstract":"Properties of solid energetic materials depend on a large extent on their crystal structure. Thus, the structure determines suitability of a given compound for defense purposes. Since there are no simple methods to predict crystal structures, such structures become known only after a given material has been synthesized and crystallized. The structures can be predicted from quantum mechanical calculations, but until recently the reliability of such predictions was very low. This situation has changed with the development of symmetryadapted perturbation theory (SAPT) based on densityfunctional theory (DFT) description of monomers, an approach known as SAPT(DFT). The SAPT(DFT) potentials for dimers of energetic molecules were applied to predictions of properties of crystals of such molecules in a combined molecular packing, lattice minimization, and molecular dynamics simulations study. The properties of the cyclotrimethylene trinitramine (RDX) crystal predicted from first principles are in excellent agreement with experiment and the predictions are even somewhat better than achieved by empirical potentials fitted to the crystal experimental data. A similar work on the 1,1-diamino-2,2-dinitroethylene (FOX-7) crystal is in progress.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129997013","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. R. Banks, Paul Agarwal, Marshall McBride, Claudette Owens
{"title":"Evolving Image Noise Filters through Genetic Programming","authors":"E. R. Banks, Paul Agarwal, Marshall McBride, Claudette Owens","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.50","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.50","url":null,"abstract":"A form of Evolutionary Computation (EC) called Genetic Programming (GP) was used to automatically discover sequences of image noise filters to remove two types of image noise and a type of communications noise associated with a remotely sensed imagery. Sensor noise was modeled by the addition of salt-and-pepper and grayscale noise to the image. Communication noise was modeled by inserting a series of blank pixels in selected image rows to replicate dropped pixel segments occurring during communication interruptions of sequential uncompressed image information. A known image was used for training the evolver. Heavy amounts of noise were added to the known image, and a filter was evolved. (The filtered image was compared to the original with the average image-toimage pixel error establishing the fitness function.). The evolved filter derived for the noisy image was then applied to never-before-seen imagery affected by similar noise conditions to judge the universal applicability of the evolved GP filter. Examples of all described images are included in the presentation. A variety of image filter primitives were used in this experiment. The evolved sequences of primitives were each then sequentially applied to produce the final filtered image. These filters were evolved over a typical run length of one week each on a small Linux cluster. Once evolved, the filters were then transported to a PC for application to the never-before-seen images, using an “evolve-once, apply-many-times” approach. The results of this image filtering experiment were quite dramatic.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127704232","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Qi, S. Levchenko, J. Bennett, I. Grinberg, A. Rappe
{"title":"New Prospects for High Performance SONAR, Chemical Sensor, and Communication Device Materials","authors":"T. Qi, S. Levchenko, J. Bennett, I. Grinberg, A. Rappe","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.34","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.34","url":null,"abstract":"Perovskite oxides are a special group of materials, which exhibit many interesting properties, such as ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, superconductivity, and high dielectric constant. Their unique physical properties lead to a variety of technological applications. Using quantum-mechanical simulations, we have computationally investigated several perovskite materials for use in Naval SONAR, chemical sensor and communications devices. We elucidate the influence of the constituent elements on technologically relevant properties, furthering the goal of achieving higher performance through modification of the material chemical composition.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"51 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115585616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Investigation of Three-Dimensional Separation in Internal and External Flows","authors":"R. Jacobi, A. Gross, H. Fasel","doi":"10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.19","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/HPCMP-UGC.2009.19","url":null,"abstract":"For Navy relevant geometries, separation of wall bounded flows is a highly complex phenomenon. Because of the relatively high Reynolds numbers involved,separation is always associated with considerable unsteadiness. This unsteadiness is caused by large coherent structures that are a consequence of hydrodynamic instability mechanisms of the mean flow. In addition, due to the shape of underwater vehicles (submarines, torpedoes, low aspect ratio lifting or control surfaces) the separation is three-dimensional (3D). The combination of three-dimensionality and unsteadiness results in a highly complex time-dependent topology of the separated region. In a combined numerical/experimental effort, we are studying laminar separation bubbles in external flows. For these simulations, we employ highly-resolved direct numerical simulations (DNS) to obtain a deeper understanding of the various physical mechanisms governing separation, transition, and reattachment of 3D bubbles. Ultimately, such understanding may pave the way for the development of effective and efficient strategies for preventing separation for practical applications. We are also evaluating hybrid turbulence models for high Reynolds number flows. In particular, we describe DNS, Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS), and hybrid simulations of a turbulent square duct flow. Based on these simulations we decided on two hybrid strategies for simulating the asymmetric diffuser experiments that were conducted at Stanford University by J. Eaton et al. The first mean flow results look very encouraging. If successful, this research will result in hybrid models that are suitable for a wide variety of flow topologies and Reynolds numbers.","PeriodicalId":268639,"journal":{"name":"2009 DoD High Performance Computing Modernization Program Users Group Conference","volume":"69 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-06-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115810908","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}