1. Grid Enabled Optimisation and Design Search for Engineering (GEODISE) Prof Simon Cox Southampton University

2. Academic and Industrial Partners 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

3. The GEODISE Team ... Richard Boardman Sergio Campobasso Liming Chen
Mike Chrystall
Simon Cox
Mihai Duta
Clive Emberey
Hakki Eres
Matt Fairman
Carole Goble
Mike Giles
Zhuoan Jiao
Andy Keane
Juri Papay
Graeme Pound
Nicola Reader
Angus Roberts
Mark Scott
Tony Scurr
Nigel Shadbolt
Paul Smart
Barry Tao
Jasmin Wason
Gang “Luke” Xue
Fenglian Xu

4. Design

5. Design Challenges Modern engineering firms are global and distributed
“Not just a problem of using HPC”
How to … ?
… improve design environments
… cope with legacy code / systems
CAD and analysis tools, user interfaces, PSEs, and Visualization
… produce optimized designs
Optimisation methods
… integrate large-scale systems in a
flexible way
Management of distributed compute and data resources
Data archives (e.g. design/ system usage)
… archive and re-use design history
Knowledge repositories & knowledge capture and reuse tools.
… capture and re-use knowledge

6. NASA Satellite Structure
Optimized satellite designs have been found with enhanced vibration isolation performance using parallel GA’s running on Intel workstation clusters.

12. Baseline 3D-boom on test

13. Gas Turbine Engine: Initial Design
Base Geometry
Secondary Kinetic Energy
Collaboration with Rolls-Royce

14. Design of Experiment & Response Surface Modelling
RSM Construct
RSM Evaluate
Search Using RSM
Best Design
Adequate ?
RSM Tuning
Build Data-Base
CFD
DoE
Initial Geometry …
Cluster Parallel Analysis

15. Optimised Design
Geometry
Secondary Kinetic Energy

16. Grid middleware mediates between these resources
The Grid Problem
“Flexible and secure sharing of resources among dynamic collections of individuals within and across organisations”
Resources = assets, capabilities, and knowledge
Capabilities (e.g. application codes, analysis & design tools)
Compute Grids (PC cycles, commodity clusters, HPC)
Data Grids
Experimental Instruments
Knowledge Services
Virtual Organisations
Utility Services
Grid middleware mediates between these resources

17. GEODISE
Geodise will provide grid-based seamless access to an intelligent knowledge repository, a state-of-the-art collection of optimisation and search tools, industrial strength analysis codes, and distributed computing & data resources

18. GEODISE Demo (1) Security Infrastructure
Authentication & Authorisation
(2) Define Geometry to optimise
Nacelle Design 3D
Axisymmetric (2D)
(3) Sample Objective function to build Response Surface Model
Grid Computing

19. GEODISE Demo (4) Optimise over Response Surface Model
(5) Grid Database Query and Postprocessing of Results

20. GEODISE Home Movie

21. Knowledge Technologies
Knowledge Capture for
Design Process
Ontology Driven
Service Composition

22. Workflow Management Knowledge Driven Acquire Model Re-use Retrieve
Publish
Maintain

23. The future of design optimisation
Design Optimisation needs integrated services
Design improvements driven by CAD tools coupled to advanced analysis codes (CFD, FEA, CEM etc.)
On demand heterogeneous distributed computing and data spread across companies and time zones.
Optimization “for the masses” alongside manual search as part of a problem solving environment.
Knowledge based tools for advice and control of process as well as product.
Geodise will provide grid-based seamless access to an intelligent knowledge repository, a state-of-the-art collection of optimisation and search tools, industrial strength analysis codes, and distributed computing and data resources