Future real-time testing and evaluation computing environments

The authors explore the requirements for an integrated, high performance, real-time computing environment capable of testing and evaluating future aerospace systems. It is pointed out that the effective testing and evaluation of future aerospace systems will require the integration of theoretical, experimental, and computational methodologies. Integrating these methodologies will require the development of an integrated simulation framework that couples the computational capabilities that have evolved independently of one another to support these disciplines. The balanced architectures inherent within current and future supercomputing technologies can provide a high performance platform for facilitating this integration. Some examples of how these relationships among methodologies are being exploited are presented, including a nuclear weapon design example, a crash testing example, and a computational fluid dynamics example