Proposal to U.S. Navy Strategic Systems Programs for the Virtualization of Purpose-Build Devices to Reduce the Size Weight and Power (SWaP) for the Hypersonic Glide Body (HGB)

Envistacom proposes to review and evaluate the functionalities currently hosted on the U.S. Navy’s HGB. The purpose of the study will be to identify a minimum of one of the functionalities currently operating on the HGB other than the main computer and to virtualize and integrate this function with the main computer process in Open Computing Language (OpenCL). The combined virtualized functionality will be hosted on a single High-Performance Computer (HPC) based terminal that can host a virtualized library of application cores in the future. This effort will entail reviewing the design for the software, firmware, and purpose-built hardware, as well as related technical specifications of the various processes currently hosted on the HGB. The expected outcome of the study is to demonstrate the high-level of integration that can be accomplished by using a high-level coding language, such as OpenCL, to virtualize and replace purpose-built devices/boards with all software applications. The resulting effort will demonstrate a reduction in complexity, cost, and SWaP, while improving flexibly, scalability, and simplicity of development. The intent is to have this Phase II effort lead to a follow-on effort (post Phase II) where additional functions, waveforms, and processes can be added to the library of virtualized cores for the HGB. As shown in Figure 1-1, Envistacom has been successful in demonstrating how a library of networking capabilities, waveforms, and other functions (applications) can be supported as virtualized applications on an HPC platform.