A Modular Collaborative Parallel CFD Workbench
Kwai-Lam Wong
Joint Institute for Computational Science
Computer Science and Mathematics Division
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Building 3546, RM105, Mail Stop 6013
Bethel Valley Road
Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6013
USA
wong@jics.utk.edu
Simulation of physical phenomena on computers has joined
engineering mechanics theory and laboratory experimentation as the
third method of engineering analysis design. It is in fact the only
feasible
method for analyzing many critically important phenomena, e.g.,
quenching,
heat treating, full scale phenomena, etc. With the rapid maturation of
inexpensive parallel computing technology, and high performance
communications, there will emerge shortly a totally new, highly
interactive computing/simulation environment supporting engineering
design optimization. This environment will exist on Internet employing
interoperable software/hardware infrastructures emergent today. A key
element of this will involve development of computational software
enabling utilization of all HPCC advances. This talk introduces the
concept and details the development of a user-adapted computational
simulation software platform called "Parallel Interoperable
Computational Mechanics Simulation System (PICMSS)" prototype on the
Internet.