[CAnet - news] Web services, wrokflow and grids for enginering design and development

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[Another good example of how service oriented architectures using web
services, workflow tools and grids for engineering design and development in
applications such as computational fluid dynamics, MatLab applications, etc.
Some excerpts from GridToday article.  For more information on Geodise see
http://www.geodise.org/-  BSA]


www.gridtoday.com

  The Geodise project is one of the Engineering and Physical Sciences 
  Research Council pilot projects. It has produced a set of toolboxes to 
  aid the engineer in the design process by making available a suite of 
  intelligent design optimization and search tools, CAD packages and 
  mesh generation tools. It has been used to enable CFD analysis 
  packages to be integrated with distributed Grid-enabled computing, 
  analysis, data and knowledge resources.
  
  The users of the Geodise toolkits act as clients to remote compute and 
  database resources that are exposed as Grid services. Users are 
  authenticated, and then authorized to access resources to which they 
  have rights. 

  In  addition to command line tools, the Geodise project has also produced 
  a graphical user interface, called the Geodise Workflow Tool, which 
  allows users to construct and execute workflows, and execute them 
  locally or on distributed Grid resources. This architecture 
  ensures that engineers can perform complicated simulations related to 
  design search and optimization easily on different Grid resources.
  
    
  Engineering design search and optimization is also a data intensive 
  process. Data may be generated at different locations with different 
  characteristics. It is often necessary for a design engineer to access 
  a collection of data produced by design and optimization processes to 
  make design decisions, perform further analysis and carry out 
  post-processing. 
  
    
  The Geodise project is removing the barriers that prevent engineers 
  from exploiting Grid resources, allowing them to carry out large-scale 
  optimization across computationally expensive industrial engineering 
  designs. At the same time, the Geodise Grid-based data management 
  system encourages engineers to annotate and archive their data for 
  searching, retrieval and sharing within virtual organizations. To 
  achieve this, Geodise focused on usability by integrating toolboxes 
  with the popular and familiar Matlab computing and Jython scripting 
  environments as well as other Java applications, such as the Geodise 
  Workflow Tool.
  
   
  
  


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