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Grid Technologies for Engineering Applications Marc Molinari e-Science Centre University of Southampton Overview ● Project Case Studies ▪ Geodise ▪ GEM ▪ G-Yacht ● Grid Benefits ● Further Information 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 Geodise Grid-enabled Optimisation and Design Search for Engineering ● e-Science pilot project ● Computational Fluid Dynamics ● EPSRC funded research programme ● Range of industrial partners 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 Epistemics - Knowledge Technologies Condor - Grid Middleware Technology Engineer (Matlab interface) Databases Collaboration Optimisation Grid Technology Visualisation Knowledge Computation Computational Steering GEM ● Provide a tool for grid-enabled electromagnetic optimisation for industrial use ● DTI funded project ● Industrial partner: Mesophotonics Ltd. ● Next-generation photonic devices for highspeed optical communication Integration Concept Knowledge Design Optimisation Computation Result Process Development Production Product DB Testing Application Business Maintenance Application Information Technology 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) 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 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.” Design Process y a x Grid Technologies ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● Grid technology / Webservices PC’s, Workstations, Condor Cluster Microsoft .NET IBM Websphere Globus Toolkit Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) Grid Security Infrastructure (GSI) Extend applications with Grid access 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 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