U.S. Army Modeling and Simulation Executable Architecture Deployment Cloud Virtualization Strategy

Our research has included leveraging Virtualization Technologies to provide integration, configuration and execution relief of Modeling & Simulation (M&S) event planning, instantiation and analysis. We have achieved this through a single service that is used to deploy and execute stand-alone applications as well as separate, but cooperative, applications on a dynamic virtual machine-based cloud. This use of virtualization technology shows significant cost savings in reducing the human effort for integration, test and execution by providing a powerful virtual machine environment that combines new and existing applications and their configurations. Our effort eliminates the time needed to manually configure and execute these applications on physical hardware once they are captured in the system.