Canes HCI

SOLUTE is developing next-generation architectures for CANES. This effort includes analyzing, designing, developing, prototyping, and testing future hardware and software systems in support of the coming big data analytics requirements for CANES and CANES Agile Core Services (ACS). Topics of research have included Software-Defined Networking, Software-Defined Storage, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a Service, Data as a Service (Data Virtualization), and advanced hardware computing architectures. SOLUTE’s System Administrators and Network Engineers have built a fully representative CANES instance in the SOLUTE laboratory and have integrated many emerging technologies into this environment. The ultimate goal is to transition CANES to a Software-Defined Architecture that can support elastic computing, auto scaling, containerized software deployment, and the Platform as a Service objectives of CANES Objective Baseline 2, CANES Software 3, and CANES ACS 3.0.

SOLUTE is currently on schedule to perform an afloat test of this system in Trident Warrior as well as several evaluations in the E2C lab at Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific. SOLUTE has developed the prototype (hardware and software), test plans, and C&A (Certification and Accreditation) plans and has coordinated with all parties to ensure a successful test event in which relevant data and feedback can successfully be obtained from the fleet.