Archaria virtual city model - Stress test in virtualized environment
Rome, Italy. On 22nd January 2019, the NATO Modelling and Simulation Centre of Excellence (NATO M&S COE) executed a stress test of running the flagship virtual city model Archaria in a virtualized environment.
The NATO M&S COE and Fabaris (an Italian company) developed this model to support NATO ACT’s Urbanization Project (UP).
UP’s primary aim is to provide recommendations to NATO top-level decision makers about the challenges future megacities pose to Alliance operations.
This first stress test of a virtualized instance of Archaria involved 18 Subject Matter Experts from the NATO M&S COE and industry.
Model virtualization represents a key enabler for the NATO M&S COE, bringing benefits for future NATO and Allied nations’ major projects in terms of flexibility, cost, scalability, reliability, and overall performance in distributed and federated architectures.
This work opens new opportunities for better Modelling and Simulation support to NATO and Nations’ objectives.
Archaria, a unique and innovative solution has been used in three NATO major events: the 2015 and 2016 Limited Objective Experiment and Wargame at NATO Defense College in Rome (Italy) and in 2018 at the Concept Validation Wargame hosted at Development, Concepts and Doctrine Centre in Shrivenham (UK).
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