Software Services for Engineers.

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Software Services for Engineers.
Steven Johnston, Phillip Marsh, Simon J. Cox
and Kenji Takeda Microsoft Institute for HPC,
School of Engineering Sciences, University of
Southampton, United Kingdom. Microsoft, Thames
Valley Park, Reading, United Kingdom. Emailsjj698
_at_zepler.org
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Microsoft Institute for High Performance
Computing _at_ Southampton

• Dr Kenji Takeda Prof Simon Cox
• Our aim is to demonstrate why, where, and how we
  are exploiting current and future Microsoft tools
  and technologies to make the engineering design
  process faster, cheaper and better.
• www.mihpc.net

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Centre for Fluid Mechanics Simulation

• To develop means to dramatically increase
  simulation power, revolutionise the design
  process and transform user interface in order to
  provide tools to exploit multi-disciplinary
  optimisation and so bring products to market in
  extremely short timescales
• Consortium includes Airbus, ARA, Rolls-Royce,
  BAE Systems, BMT Fluid Mechanics, MBDA, and
  WilliamsF1
• University of Southampton, School of Engineering
  Sciences will develop proof of concepts with
  Airbus, Rolls-Royce and BAE Systems developed
  between showing how
• current and future Microsoft tools,
  technologies and platforms can be exploited to
  make the engineering design process faster,
  cheaper and better.

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Overview

• Introduction
• Software Services
• User driven Proof of Concepts (PoC)
• Rolls Royce
• Airbus
• BAE
• QA

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Introduction

• Objectives
• Accelerate the understanding of engineering
  systems and product development
• Investigate the enterprise engineering process
• Separate infrastructure from engineering
• Using user-driven Proof of Concepts (PoC)

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Software Services

• Fat client or thin Client
• Local or mobile or cloud application
• SS is a hybrid of designs
• REST
• SOA
• SaaS
• Web 2.0

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Rolls Royce PoC

• Formalise the engineering design and optimisation
  process (currently script based)
• Orchestration of computationally intensive Gas
  Turbine blade simulation
• Key Technologies
• Windows Workflow Foundation
• Windows HPC Server (v1)
• Visual Studio 2005

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Rolls Royce PoC -Features

• Workflow
• Reusability
• Quality assurance
• Separation of WF user and WF creator
• Tracking (Data provenience or monitoring)
• Interoperability between Windows and Linux
• Demonstrated applicability of commodity
  technologies to challenging engineering problems

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Airbus PoC

• Data Intensive collaborative working across
  multiple sites
• Business objects
• Model -gt Mesh -gt Flow solution
• Key Technologies
• Sharepoint Server
• Windows Communication Foundation (WCF)

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Airbus PoC - Features

• LDAP/AD user credentials
• Interoperability with existing systems (Python
  client)
• Robust, reliable and scalable (multi-site)
• Demonstrated considerable simplification and
  consolidation of technology stack using Microsoft
  technologies

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BAE PoC

• How to capture and retain knowledge
• Provide an audit trail and thought process
• How to introduce new engineers to ongoing work
• Key Technologies (mostly Beta RC)
• Windows Server 2008 HyperV RC0
• Windows HPC Server 2008 Beta 2
• SQL Server 2008 CTP6
• Office Communication Server

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BAE PoC - Features

• Custom client
• Start tasks
• Associate documents/files/chats/workflows with
  task
• Full text search
• Virtualised infrastructure (Hyper-V)
• Knowledge capture (automatic OCS chat saving)
• Multiple data format search ( Ifilter in SQL
  server)
• File streaming (SQL managed data files)

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Summary

• Each PoC addresses a different area of the
  enterprise engineering process
• Demonstrated technology capabilities
• Each PoC is a general case and the solutions
  applicable to other domains
• By separating audit and infrastructure, workers
  can focus on their expert areas

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Questions?
Steven Johnston, Phillip Marsh, Simon J. Cox
and Kenji Takeda Microsoft Institute for HPC,
School of Engineering Sciences, University of
Southampton, United Kingdom. Microsoft, Thames
Valley Park, Reading, United Kingdom. Emailsjj698
_at_zepler.org