To develop methods and tools that use computational models
efficiently to manage/control the formulation and solution of complex
design problems.
HPCD is an
ARPA/ITO
sponsored project. Within the framework of the national HPCC program,
the project is intended as a major step towards building a
comprehensive national resource for HPC-based computational methods
and facilities that can address the 'grand challenge' of design.
The project is organized as a large scale, multidisciplinary,
multi-institutional, consortium involving researchers from academia
and industry. Participating universities include
Rutgers,
USC
and
Princeton.
At present, industrial participants include
SAIC,
Cambridge Hydrodynamics Inc. (CHI),
GE,
Lockheed, AeroHydro,
IBM,
AMD, Sematech,
Bellcore,
UTRC, Boeing, Schlumberger, and
INTEL.
Other research collaborations have been established with researchers
from several government and industrial labs. The Principal Investigator and Co-PI's are:
- Saul Amarel (Rutgers), PI & Project Director
- Louis Steinberg (Rutgers), co-PI & Assoc Proj Dir
- Alvin Despain (USC), co-PI & Proj co-Dir
- Steven Orszag (Princeton), co-Pi & Proj co-Dir
- Eytan Barouch (CHI), co-PI
- James Flanagan (Rutgers), co-PI
- Apostolos Gerasoulis (Rutgers), co-PI
- Doyle Knight (Rutgers), co-PI
- Norman Zabusky (Rutgers), co-PI
The component efforts of HPCD are designed to address the three main
technical goals of the project, by proceeding 'bottom-up' via
exploration of selected concrete design problems, and by developing
methodologies and tools in a manner which is strongly influenced by
the 'pull' of these problems. To achieve cohesion in the overall
res-arch effort, the component efforts are organized in two main
clusters: Cluster I concentrating on design and manufacturing of
computers and of related microstructures; and Cluster II concentrating
on design tasks that are critically dependent on Computational Fluid
Dynamics (CFD). There is also a third supporting cluster of core work,
Cluster III, whose emphasis is on computer/computational science
foundations and methodologies that are related to work in the
two main clusters. Each cluster includes efforts in two or three
research areas. Collaboration among researchers, and synergy among
component efforts, are an integral part of the approach in the
project.
RESEARCH AREAS
Cluster I. Hypercomputing in Computer System Design and Manufacturing
Cluster II. Hypercomputing in Design Tasks Supported by Computational
Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
Area II.2. Innovative Ship Design
Cluster III. Core Research in Hypercomputing and Design
Area III.1. Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods and systems in design
Area III.2. Visiometrics and modeling for ship design and vortex flows
Area III.3 Software Tools and algorithms for HPCD
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