Using Grid Computing within the Department of Defense

Abstract

The Department of Defense has massive amounts of data that require analysis. Purchase and maintenance of supercomputers to process this information, or leasing of supercomputer resources, is very expensive. DoD already has a supercomputer available to it via distributed or grid computing by making use of the millions of PCs within the department. Using CPU and memory scavenging agents DoD has the potential to harness over 70 Petaflops of computer capacity using existing equipment with minimal additional investment. This platform could then be used to perform advanced modeling, advanced simulation, deep data mining and evolutionary analysis.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 24, 2008
Accession Number
ADA488421

Entities

People

  • Peter Garretson
  • Richard Kundiger

Organizations

  • Defense Contract Management Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Cloud Computing
  • Computational Processes
  • Computers
  • Computing Devices
  • Computing-Related Activities
  • Contracts
  • Control Simulators
  • Data Mining
  • Data Sets
  • Department Of Defense
  • Education
  • Information Operations
  • Simulations
  • Simulators
  • Supercomputers

Readers

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  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.
  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML
  • AI & ML - DoD AI Strategy