MDA Advanced Scene Generator (ASG):

Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Advanced Scene Generator (ASG) is a research program designed to produce technology useful to MDA’s Hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) laboratories.   It involves high framerate graphics, realtime programming, and advanced Personal Computer (PC) based systems and  networks.  Systems attributes include: use of 64bit Linux™ Operating System, advanced graphics from nVidia® and ATI®, and General Purpose Computing on Graphics Processing Units (GP/GPU).

ASG Capabilities:

• High Fidelity, Physics-Based, Multi-Spectral Target Signature Data in Realtime
• End-to-End 16-bpcc High Dynamic Range (HDR)
• Energy-Conservant Rendering
  • 16 – 64 Sub-Pixel Sample FSAA
  • “Trap-Door” Rendering– Subsystem Dedicated to AOI for Enhanced Acuity
• Scalable Waveband Support : 2-Color to Hyper-spectral
• Advanced Synchronization Technology
• Discrete and Fabric-Enhanced Pacing Controlled by the UUT
• System Wide Per-Pixel Sync
• Support for Customer Specific Video Timings and Formats
  • 256 – 1.5k Lines and 30 – 200+ Hz
• Independence® COTS, Open-Architecture, PC-Based Solution
• Realtime Linux-Cluster Topologies
• Advanced Interconnects
• Support for CPU and GP/GPU Processing
• Support for MDA WAN Requirements
• Support for Component and Subsystem Level Technology Insertion
• GPUs, CPUs, Interconnects
• 2800 % Performance Improvement Since 2003