Resilient workflows for computational mechanics platforms

• Published in: IOP conference series. Materials Science and Engineering 2010-06, Vol.10 (1), p.012015-012015
• Main Authors: Nguyên, Toàn, Trifan, Laurentiu, Désidéri, Jean-Antoine
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Aerodynamics; Aircraft; Aircraft models; Computation; Computational mechanics; Computer programs; Computer simulation; Flight tests; Infrastructure; Materials science; Programming languages; Software; Three dimensional; Three dimensional models; Workflow management systems
• ISSN: 1757-899X; 1757-8981; 1757-899X
• DOI: 10.1088/1757-899X/10/1/012015

Workflow management systems have recently been the focus of much interest and many research and deployment for scientific applications worldwide [26, 27]. Their ability to abstract the applications by wrapping application codes have also stressed the usefulness of such systems for multidiscipline applications [23, 24]. When complex applications need to provide seamless interfaces hiding the technicalities of the computing infrastructures, their high-level modeling, monitoring and execution functionalities help giving production teams seamless and effective facilities [25, 31, 33]. Software integration infrastructures based on programming paradigms such as Python, Mathlab and Scilab have also provided evidence of the usefulness of such approaches for the tight coupling of multidisciplne application codes [22, 24]. Also high-performance computing based on multi-core multi-cluster infrastructures open new opportunities for more accurate, more extensive and effective robust multi-discipline simulations for the decades to come [28]. This supports the goal of full flight dynamics simulation for 3D aircraft models within the next decade, opening the way to virtual flight-tests and certification of aircraft in the future [23, 24, 29].