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USJFCOM’s new super computer to enhance joint experimentation, training

The High Performance Computing Modernization Program recently assigned U.S. Joint Forces Command with a super computer to help joint operators enhance modeling and simulation experimentation and training efforts in support of the Long War. Robert Pursell has the story.

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Narrated by Robert Pursell, USJFCOM Public Affairs
Featuring: Jim Blank, USJFCOM modeling and simulation division chief

Pursell:  The High Performance Computing Modernization Program recently awarded U.S. Joint Forces Command with a super computer that will enhance experimentation and training efforts.

The super computer will be operated by the Joint Training Directorate and Joint Experimentation Directorate and accessed through the Defense Research and Engineering Network or DREN.

The super computer itself is much larger and more powerful than the machines previously used by the command and will reduce the latency introduced when using a distributed capability.

Jim Blank, USJFCOM’s modeling and simulation division chief, explained the command’s focus in using the machine.

Blank: “There’s been a shift in focus, as you might imagine, from those rolling deserts and plains to the urban environment.  You can’t model an urban environment without modeling the people because that is absolutely the most important part of the city.  Secondarily, is the complex terrain involved within that environment.  So, the super computer helps out in both areas.”

Pursell:  Blank summed up the advantage of having the super computer housed at command when he said that having the machine locally will significantly enhance the USJFCOM modeling and simulation capability and facilitate technical development.

For more information on this and other ways U.S. Joint Forces Command is supporting the warfighter, visit us on the web at www.jfcom.mil.

For U.S. Joint Forces Command, I’m Robert Pursell.