Published September 1, 2021 | Version v1
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Benchmarking the Processing of Aircraft Tracks with Triples Mode and Self-Scheduling

  • 1. MIT Lincoln Laboratory

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Presentation associated with the paper, "Benchmarking the Processing of Aircraft Tracks with Triples Mode and Self-Scheduling," presented at the 2021 IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC) conference.

Abstract

As unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) continue to integrate into the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS), there is a need to quantify the risk of airborne collisions between unmanned and manned aircraft to support regulation and standards development. Developing and certifying collision avoidance systems often rely on the extensive use of Monte Carlo collision risk analysis simulations using probabilistic models of aircraft flight. To train these models, high performance computing resources are required. We've prototyped a high performance computing workflow designed and deployed on the Lincoln Laboratory Supercomputing Center to process billions of observations of aircraft. However, the prototype has various computational and storage bottlenecks that limited rapid or more comprehensive analyses and models. In response, we’ve developed a novel workflow to take advantage of various job launch and task distribution technologies to improve performance. The workflow was benchmarked using two datasets of observations of aircraft, including a new dataset focused on the environment around aerodromes. Optimizing how the workflow was parallelized drastically reduced the execution time from weeks to days.

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