Simulation-based acquisition and use of modeling and simulation to save money on testing and evaluating equipment is gaining acceptance throughout DOD, Patterson said. HPC technology has already saved many millions of dollars, improving the effectiveness of complex weapons systems, he said. But the HPC Center's customer base is growing steadily, Paterson said, placing greater demands on its systems and forcing the center to do more with less. We can't run at multiple security levels simultaneously in the same machine. We require twice as many machines, or we have to support those customers one at a time with an extensive data scrub in between, which is what we have been doing.
Plans are in the works to upgrade the center's computing power.
But Paterson declined to specify what machines and configurations are being considered. All rights reserved.