A Functional Approach to Distributed Network Architectures for LVC
(Room S320B)
26 Nov 18
2:30 PM
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4:00 PM
Recent innovations within the networking industry are converging to greatly enhance the distributed simulation environment setting a foundation for the LVC objective state. Future network architectures leverage hardware innovations that include converged compute, storage, and transport management functions and device virtualization that allows a single device to perform multiple roles.
These network architectures and their operating practices create operational effects at a lower capital and operating cost. Resource utilization can be dynamically adjusted to meet demand. During a simulation sequence, surges can be distributed to ensure the quality of service required to achieve the realism demanded as hundreds, thousands, or tens of thousands of entities interact.
In effect, the LVC network environment will resemble a distributed, high-performance computing center. Multiple networks will join together on a session basis to support high intensity, many-to-many interactions on multiple, segregated classification planes. In this environment, the moment-by-moment integrity of the architecture and application operations through is a must. Both are possible with visibility functions that continuously run checks and balances verifying the veracity of the simulation.