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在冷战的结束大大降低公海海军作战的威胁的同时,新的滨海作战使命和威胁,如战术弹道导弹已经出现。这些威胁和使命向海军目前所采用的传统军用标准计算资源提出了挑战——一个日益难于以成本有效方式应付的挑战。而且,由于承认军用标准的成本高,国防部长威廉·佩里已经指示在一切可能的地方采用商用标准。因为这一变化的环境,“宙斯盾”造舰计划开始努力以高性能商用设备和新系统结构,比如分布式计算,替代目前的军用标准计算设备。作为该过程的一部分,“宙斯盾”计划办公室已与高级研究计划署(ARPA)合作,联合对把ARPA开发的分布式计算技术引入“宙斯盾”作战系统的可行性进行实验。高性能分布式计算方案(Hiper-D)就是根据这一联合倡议而产生的。Hiper-D的总目标是鉴定用于海军舰载作战系统的分布式计算。本文提供用于“宙斯盾”作战系统的商用计算技术的首次Hiper-D演示结果。
While the end of the Cold War has greatly reduced the threat of operations by the high seas navy, new coastal combat missions and threats, such as tactical ballistic missiles, have emerged. These threats and missions pose a challenge to the traditional military standard computing resources currently used by the Navy - a challenge that is increasingly difficult to manage in a cost-effective manner. And, because of the high cost of recognizing military standards, Defense Secretary William Perry has instructed that commercial standards be used wherever possible. Because of this changing environment, the Aegis shipbuilding program began efforts to replace the current military standard computing equipment with high-performance commercial equipment and new system architectures, such as distributed computing. As part of this process, the Aegis Program Office has partnered with the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) to experiment with the feasibility of introducing distributed computing technology developed by ARPA into the Aegis combat system. High-performance distributed computing (Hiper-D) is based on this joint initiative. The overall goal of Hiper-D is to identify distributed computing for naval shipboard combat systems. This article presents the first Hiper-D demonstration of commercial computing technology for the Aegis combat system.