Accession Number:

ADA621309

Title:

High-Bandwidth Tactical-Network Data Analysis in a High-Performance-Computing (HPC) Environment: Data Marshalling

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Jul 2012-Dec 2014

Corporate Author:

ARMY RESEARCH LAB ABERDEEN PROVING GROUND MD COMPUTATIONAL AND INFORMATION SCIENCES DIRECTORATE

Personal Author(s):

• Renard, Kenneth D.
• Rivera, Joseph D.
• Adametz, James R.
• Franssen, Jordan R.

Report Date:

2015-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

18.0

Abstract:

Teams from the Aberdeen Test Center and the US Army Research Laboratory collaborated to design and build a system-of-processes with a goal of reliably marshalling data from a large-scale remote tactical network field test, shuttling the data cross-country, and performing reduction and analysis. The progression of going from terabytes of raw collected field data to a data product that can be used by analysts and evaluators required coordination of people and hardware from several cross-country sites. This system-of-processes reliably worked over a 2-month time span, processing an average of 1.5 TB of raw field-collected data a day. This report describes methods, processes, and systems employed to go from raw data to a finished data product in a short time period several days to facilitate Army decision making on a major communications system production.

Descriptors:

• *HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
• DATA ACQUISITION
• DATA PROCESSING
• DATA REDUCTION
• NETWORKS

Subject Categories:

• Computer Systems Management and Standards

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE