Grid Technologies for Engineering Applications

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Grid Technologies for Engineering Applications

• Marc Molinarie-Science CentreUniversity of
  Southampton

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Overview

• Project Case Studies
• Geodise
• GEM
• G-Yacht
• Grid Benefits
• Further Information

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e-Science Team

• Richard Boardman
• Sergio Campobasso
• Liming Chen
• Simon Cox
• Mihai Duta
• Clive Emberey
• Hakki Eres
• Matt Fairman
• Carole Goble
• Richard Gooding
• Sam Gould
• Mike Giles
• Richard Harding
• Ian Hartney
• Tracey Hunt

• Zhuoan Jiao
• Andy Keane
• Marc Molinari
• Graeme Pound
• Nicola Reader
• Colin puleston
• Ben Rogers
• Mark Scott
• Nigel Shadbolt
• Paul Smart
• Wenbin Song
• Barry Tao
• Jasmin Wason
• Fenglian Xu
• Gang Luke Xue

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Geodise
Grid-enabled Optimisation and Design Search for
Engineering

• e-Science pilot project
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• EPSRC funded research programme
• Range of industrial partners

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Parties involved
Southampton, Oxford and Manchester

• Simon Cox Grid/ W3C Technologies and High
  Performance Computing, Global Grid Forum Apps
  Working Group
• Andy Keane Director of Rolls Royce/ BAE Systems
  University Technology Partnership in Design
  Search and Optimisation
• Mike Giles Director of Rolls Royce University
  Technology Centre for Computational Fluid
  Dynamics
• Carole Goble Ontologies and DARPA Agent Markup
  Language (DAML) / Ontology Inference Language
  (OIL)
• Nigel Shadbolt Director of Advanced Knowledge
  Technologies (AKT) IRC

BAE Systems - Engineering Rolls-Royce -
Engineering Fluent - Computational Fluid
Dynamics Microsoft - Software/ Web Services Intel
- Hardware Compusys - Systems Integration Epistemi
cs - Knowledge Technologies Condor - Grid
Middleware
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Technology
Engineer (Matlab interface)
Optimisation
Databases
Grid Technology
Knowledge
Collaboration
Visualisation
Computation
Computational Steering
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GEM

• Provide a tool for grid-enabled electro-magnetic
  optimisation for industrial use
• DTI funded project
• Industrial partner Mesophotonics Ltd.
• Next-generation photonic devices for high-speed
  optical communication

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Integration
Concept
Design
Knowledge
Optimisation
Computation
Development
Production
Testing
Product DB
Result
Process
Application
Business
Maintenance
Application
Information
Technology
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Industrial Perspective

• Functionality, robustness, effectiveness
• Transparent integration (training)
• Horizontal / Vertical Business Workflow
• Reliability (availability, performance, security)
• Manageability
• International standards (Grid-services)
• Interoperability (O/S independence)
• Overall efficiency (cost of ownership)

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G-Yacht

• Yacht CFD and analysis tool
• Industrial Partner Wolfson Unit for Marine
  Technology and Industrial Aerodynamics (WUMTIA)
• Americas Cup, Volvo Ocean Race and Vendee Globe
• Experimental data ?? CFD data

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Vision
To develop a service to give remote access to
yacht CFD and analysis tools via a Grid enabled
Web portal allowing globally spread design teams
to interact efficiently and effectively.
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Design Process
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Grid Technologies

• Grid technology / Webservices
• Condor
• Microsoft .NET
• IBM Websphere
• Globus Toolkit
• Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)
• Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI)
• Extend applications with Grid access

PCs, Workstations,Cluster
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Benefits of Grid Technology

• Rapid prototyping ? less time-to-product
• Collaborative / Restrictive Engineering
• Use of Resources
• In-house availability
• Through services
• Pay-per-use
• Access to technology otherwise unavailable
• Lower cost

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Further Information

• www.e-science.soton.ac.uk
• www.geodise.org
• www.soton.ac.uk/gem
• www.soton.ac.uk/gyacht
• www.nesc.ac.uk
• www.whiterose.ac.uk