Customer Usage Tracking in a Shared Simulation Infrastructure
Eric Padiolleau, CETIM / Valeo
The EXPAMTION project is accredited by two French competitiveness
clusters, MOV’EO and SYSTEM@TIC in order to investigate
a shared simulation infrastructure that could
be used by all people involved in the design
of mechatronic components.
The goal for EXPAMTION is to experiment
a collaborative
design methodology with all actors of the supply
chain using existing complementary simulation
tools. The actors of the
project are ALTAIR, BULL, CADLM, CETIM, INTES,
MDP, SIMPOE, VALEO, UTC and UVSQ.
The definition
of a methodology of work as well as the business
model associated with
it will give indications on the feasibility
of such collaborative work environment
with high power computing and software sharing.
The
objective is to achieve the design of environmentally-friendly
products using high-performance computing resources
to produce results unreachable with current
non-collaborative design
process. For example, based on highly intensive
use of multi-disciplinary simulation, the reduction
of CO2 emissions between 2% to 6%
will be investigated by optimizing weight-distribution
of structures, heat flow in exchangers and
fluid flow in cooling systems.
The key challenges
to meet are the user data confidentiality in
real scale shared mode,
the real time license usage tracking management,
the distant access to a secured
infrastructure and the compatibility with the
way of working of SMEs which will be involved
in the process of parallel
computing for the first time.
The paper will
present how the actors achieve these goals
with using Altair’s
software for grid-computing (PBS GridWorks)
and for license tracking (reporting based
on HiQube).
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