WP3: CAE GRID

This work-package focused on industrial CAE applications. It provided services to HPC customers that require huge computing power to solve their engineering problems. The major partners in this work-package were T-Systems and EADS Corporate Research centre. They started by using the initial functionality of UNICORE and investigated two important aspect of industrial use of CAE, namely, code coupling and ASP-type services.

Code coupling or multi-physics optimisation is a key point to improve system design leading by reducing the prototyping and testing costs. General support for the coupling of applications was integrated in the EUROGRID system.

The ASP-type services designed application specific user interfaces for job submission so that the complexity of using HPC systems is hidden to the application engineers. At the same time, this work-package addressed some issues related to the accurate prediction of cost estimates for CAE simulations enabling the user to choose for continuing or aborting a calculation. 

d.mallmann@ fz-juelich.de
10-May-2004
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