In challenging engineering problems, such as planning and design of large
constructions, often occur different tasks engineers have to tackle by
numerical simulations. Such are computing the stability of the structure
by statics simulations, investigating the air flow inside or around the
construction with fluid dynamics simulation, or improving the ergonomics
of the building by traffic simulations. Automating the information
interchange among such processes is an extremely important task in
their integration. Moreover, when the processes are either physically
distributed or belong to different research communities, grid technologies
seem to be the best choice for tackling the integration.
The GridSFEA framework aims to provide in grid environments different
engineering simulation tasks, such as CFD, CSD or molecular dynamics simulations.
It is based on Globus Toolkit 4 and currently contains on the grid side WSRF-based
services for computationally intensive tasks, such as efficiently solving
on supercomputers large sparse systems of linear equations. Our focus is the
design and development of grid-based solutions for the HPC applications available
at our chair.
The framework also includes the GridSFEA portal Grid Simulations@SCCS,
based on OGCE2 portal generator. The portal allows the grid users to transfer
files to/from the grid, to submit simulation jobs to our grid test-bed
installation, to monitor their status. Specialized portlets make possible
the easy development of classification algorithms based on sparse grids methods
and convenient remote execution of CFD simulations.
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