High Performance Computing and Supporting Hardware for Cyber-Physical Design and Experimentation
Abstract
The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is requesting DURIP funding for a high-poweredcomputation cluster and supporting testbed hardware to support the creation of a state-of-the-art Virtual Integration, Prototyping, and Experimentation Resource (VIPER) for use on numerous defense research projects. The vision behind VIPER is to take advantage of the computational technologyimprovements that have been steadily occurring over the past several decades to enable large-scale, fully validated, high-fidelity virtual analysis and testing to decrease the design cycle time and increase the size of the design space considered. These high fidelity virtual experiments will then lead to focused prototyping activities in key areas. If fully realized, VIPER can decrease the cost and time required to complete the design and testing cycle, increase the amount and fidelity of knowledge available throughout the system design process, and provide a meaningful way to guide physical experimentation such that the most critical knowledge can be obtained using the limited funding available for physical testing. This facility will be particularly important in the development of cutting-edge collaborative, modular, cyber-physical systems where prior design experience is limited, and advanced experimental methods can be used to reduce uncertainty and accelerate technology maturation.The computing environment and testbed hardware requested under this DURIP are the central backbone to VIPER. The computational environment will be linked with the Collaborative Design Environment (CoDE), the Collaborative Visualization Environment (CoVE), and the Adaptive Design, Prototyping, and Experimentation (ADePT) Facility, which were created using previously awarded DURIP funding from the Office of Naval Research (ONR), to fully create VIPER. This physical facility, coupled with validated, multi-disciplinary analysis environment libraries around systems of interest and an associated library of system of systems models that are being developed through numerous Department of Defense (DoD) and non-DoD sponsored projects, as well as a team of professional researchers spanning the necessary disciplines, enables the VIPER vision to be fully realized. VIPER will provide a unique and unrivaled end-to-end cyber-physical design research capability, and can be leveraged across many defense related efforts to save time and cost and increase confidence in results. The infrastructure requested in this DURIP is the final piece to complete VIPER.The majority of the cost for this facility is the computing cluster which, based on recently obtained quotes, is estimated to be $277,640.16. Although appropriate facilities exist within Georgia Tech to install this equipment, it is anticipated that miscellaneous hardware will be required to connect the equipment to the existing network which includes the CoDE and the CoVE, as well as to install the equipment into the existing facilities. In addition, items supporting the expansion of the physicalexperimentation facility come to $60,489. This brings the total funding request to $349,860
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Jan 25, 2017
- Source ID
- N000141512909
Entities
People
- Dimitri Mavris
Organizations
- Georgia Tech Research Corporation
- Office of Naval Research
- United States Navy