SimServer: Simulated Data
Streams on Demand via the Web
March 2005
Douglas Flournoy, The MITRE Corporation
Robert Mikula, The MITRE Corporation
David Seidel, The MITRE Corporation
Dr. Richard Weatherly, The MITRE Corporation
ABSTRACT
Simulated data streams have long been employed to support prototyping
and experimentation. These data streams create the operational context
within which systems and concepts are demonstrated, tested, integrated,
and exercised. Although this context is essential for success, resources
are better spent on the focus of the project—not on the simulation
support. But that's rarely how it works—applying traditional
simulation is expensive. It takes detailed planning, scenario generation,
and interface development to provide the simulation capability. Then
simulation computers, networks, and knowledgeable operators must be
coordinated to execute the simulations. Often, similar work has already
been done elsewhere, but there is no clear path to finding and leveraging
related work. In this paper we will describe SimServer: an initiative
established at MITRE in 2004 to address this situation by offering a
means to quickly and cost-effectively meet basic simulation support
needs across the company's work programs. By employing a select
set of web-inspired computing techniques, SimServer is providing on-demand
access to simulated data streams. This means that projects don't
need to buy their own simulation support computers, manage the additional
network connections, or hire simulation operators. At the SimServer
web site, consumers plan, configure, execute, and monitor their data
streams. Rather than developing capabilities from scratch, projects
use the site to browse available simulation services and reuse or modify
them. This common repository of tailorable, on-demand simulation services
frees more project dollars to be devoted to prototyping and experimentation
activities, facilitating broader and deeper experimentation programs
that deliver richer insights for shaping the future of fielded systems.
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