Story Highlights
- Army scientists now have the ability to create virtual
experimentation environments, each automatically configured and tailored
to their specifications, from their web browser.
ADELPHI, Md. (May 26, 2015) -- Through the efforts of a U.S. Army
Research Laboratory, or ARL, computer scientist, the way in which
network science experimentation environments are designed, deployed and
executed has been streamlined.
Scientists now have the ability to create virtual experimentation
environments, each automatically configured and tailored to their
specifications, from their web browser.
The system at the forefront of this novel innovation is known as the
Dynamically Allocated Virtual Clustering Management System, or DAVC.
DAVC is an experimentation infrastructure, which provides the means to
dynamically-create, deploy and manage virtual clusters of heterogeneous
nodes within a cloud computing environment based upon resource
utilization such as central processing unit load, available
random-access memory, or RAM, hard disk space and network utilization.
http://www.army.mil/article/148867/Army_computer_scientist_streamlines_network_science/