The WarpIV Kernel Version 1'4

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The WarpIV KernelVersion 1.4
Explore the parallel universe with us

• Jeffrey S. Steinman, Ph.D.
• President CEO WarpIV Technologies, Inc.
• www.warpiv.com

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WarpIV Technologies, Inc.

• New company formed August 10, 2005
• Based in San Diego, CA
• IP ownership of the WarpIV Kernel (250,000 lines
  of code)
• Focus on high performance parallel and
  distributed computing
• Specialize in simulation interoperability
  technologies
• Corporate business strategy
• Provide public source distribution of the WarpIV
  Kernel
• Completely self-contained - Requires no 3rd party
  software
• Business areas
• Services Training, consulting, maintenance, and
  software support
• Technology Continued research and development of
  the WarpIV Kernel
• Partnerships Companies, government programs,
  government laboratories, universities, and
  hardware vendors

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Technology Synergy

• WarpIV combines three critical synergistic
  technologies to provide the infrastructure for
  developing high performance applications
• High Speed Communications
• Software Utilities
• Compute Engines

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High Speed Communications

• High speed communications
• Supports parallel processing on clusters of
  multiprocessor machines
• Network ORB services
• Client/server distributed-object services
• Supports real-time scheduling
• Publish/subscribe infrastructure
• Message passing and distributed data management
  based on subscription filtering of message
  contents
• Work in progress
• Grid computing
• Manages compute farms through taskers and workers

• Multireplication framework
• Manages multiple simulation replications while
  receiving data from the real world
• Parallel Application Launcher (PAL)
• Launches applications in a distributed
  environment
• Real-time HPC-RTI Prototype
• Very high speed performance on shared memory
  multiprocessor computers
• Logical time support for all services in progress

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Software Utilities

• Rollback framework
• Persistence
• Container classes
• Data parsers
• Random number generation
• Math utilities
• Coordinate system transforms
• Motion library
• Statistical algebra
• String operations
• Data conversions

• Error Handling
• HiGrids
• Memory management
• Stopwatch timer
• Compression algorithms
• Routing table
• Data translation tools
• Sensitivity list
• Components
• Polymorphic methods
• Lanchester attrition model

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Compute Engines

• WarpIV SimEngine
• Utilizes the high speed communications services
• Advanced time management algorithms with adaptive
  flow control
• Sequential
• Conservative
• Optimistic
• Component-based modeling framework
• Autonomous, SimObj, and Local events
• Polymorphic methods and events
• Process model support
• Sensitivity list
• Federation objects and Interactions
• Automatic model distribution
• Backward compatible with SPEEDES
• Multiple application interoperability
• Run-time diagnostics
• HLA gateway under development

• Other compute engines are planned for development
• Real time estimation and prediction
• Real time computing
• High performance optimization

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Standard Simulation Architecture
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WarpIV Version 1.4

• Release Date September 11, 2005
• Public source license
• Systems supported
• Red Hat Linux 7.3 (gcc 2.91.66)
• Red Hat Linux 9.0 (gcc 3.2.2)
• Mac OS X 10.4.2 (gcc 4.0.0)
• Fedora Core Linux (gcc 3.4)
• Will support SUN, SGI, and HP

• Limited documentation
• Text-based installation file
• Users guides for High Speed Communications,
  Network ORB, and Statistical Algebra
• Technical papers (SSA, WarpIV, HPC-RTI, HSC)