INGRID – Grid Based environments

In-Grid is one of six community projects in the German D-Grid initiative, funded by the Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). In-Grid will enable engineering projects for Grid-based application and efficient use of common compute and software resources.

Only by use of Grid technologies, the necessary ressources like computers, file systems, software tools, information systems and fast secure network connections can be combined in the required form to help researchers, developers, producers and users solving their individual tasks. In-Grid is based on six prototype applications in the fields of coupled multiscale problems, coupled multidisciplinary simulations and distributed simulation based optimization. Adaptive and scalable process models and runtime environments are to be developed. The aim is to give the user simulation-based tools on different levels of complexity.

Coupled FSI simulations could benefi t from this »resource sharing« strategy in grids. The coupled components – CFD, FEM and MpCCI – could be offered as grid services (following the upcoming SOA standards); a user might then select available services and combine them in one application.

Grid-based fluid-structure simulations

A goal of this application package is it to make the coupled simulations,performed with MpCCI, Grid-compatible. Most modern Grid platforms will be used, in order to offer to the user an as simple and at the same time consistent as possible view and access to the required:

. Model and simulation data,

. Simulation tools and corresponding available licenses,

. Communication mechanisms,

. Computer resources and interconnect capacitances as well as

. virtual work and co-operation environments

Project Partner

Project Weblink:

www.ingrid-info.de

University of Stuttgart

High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart

ACCESS e.V.

Philipps-University Marburg

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science

WASY Gesellschaft

fuer wasserwirtschaftliche Planung und Systemforschung mbh

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft

Institute of Scientific Computing and Algorithms

T-Systems

Solutions for Research GmbH

University of Siegen

Institute of Business Information Technology

University of Stuttgart

Institute of Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Machinery