DoD Project: ASPIRE

GPU Computing Testbed Platform for Research and Education of Advanced Persistent Threats and Learn to Reason in Adversarial Environments

About ASPIRE Project


The goal of this DURIP proposal is to build a GPU based compact supercomputer testbed called ASPIRE that would support the ongoing ONR MURI research on advanced persistent threats, with project name ADAPT, that is led by the University of Washington Team. ADAPT is a data-driven MURI project that aims to model the interactions between the adversary and the systems. The detailed system model and the interaction logs are created by MURI team members from Georgia Tech. The data volume is quite large requiring computational capabilities that would be supporting the efforts. In addition, the UW team has been investigating adversarial machine learning in real application data sets such as images and videos. Each of these data sets typically require several days of computations on regular CPU machines. The GPU based systems are built with such data intensive machine learning applications in mind and are well suited to handle needed computations.

Meet the Team


Dr. Linda Bushnell

Principal Investigator

Dr. Radha Poovendran

Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Payman Arabshahi

Co-Principal Investigator

Baicen Xiao

Ph.D student (post-quals)

Hossein Hosseini

NSL Alumni

Shruti Misra

Ph.D student (pre-quals)

Qifan Liu

Ph.D student