SGER: Key to Designing Competitive and Environmentally Conscious Complex Products: Radically Reduced Computation

由于开发商业上成功且具有环保意识的产品所面临的挑战越来越大，美国工业界正在将基于仿真的设计提升到一个新的水平，这远远超出了当今计算机的能力。因此，在设计空间中全面探索一系列选项的关键需求受到严重损害。由此产生的后果是：产品的经济竞争力下降，环保意识减弱。这个探索性研究小额拨款（SGER）项目提议探索一个激进的新想法，这个想法可能会从字面上瓦解（至少是一个数量级）复杂系统建模特征的计算爆炸。特别是，该项目将探索一个令人困惑的概念，即通过实际上从根本上减少计算工作量，可以获得更高的准确性和从根本上更多的设计空间探索能力。风险包括充分证明该方法的可行性，提供证据证明它可以在减少计算资源的情况下改善在设计空间中建立最佳参数。如果成功，这项研究将导致一个反直觉的范式转变，这将使识别高度竞争的产品和系统成为可能，这些产品和系统远远超出了当今的艺术水平。一项密集的传播计划将使研究成果能够传播到更广泛的研究界和工业界。这种努力的最终结果是消费产品的经济、环境和工程性能大大提高。

Motivated by the increasing challenge of developing commercially successful and environmentally conscious products, US industry is taking simulation-based design to new levels that are far beyond the power of today's computers. As a result, the critical need to comprehensively explore the set of options in design space is severely compromised. The resulting consequences are: less economically competitive and less environmentally conscious products. This Small Grant for Exploratory Research (SGER) project proposes to explore a radical new idea that may literally collapse (by at least an order-of-magnitude) the computational explosion that characterizes the modeling of complex systems. In particular, this project will explore the puzzling notion that it is possible to obtain more accuracy and radically more design space exploration capability by actually radically reducing the computation effort. The risk involves adequately demonstrating the feasibility of the approach, providing evidence that it can lead to an improvement in establishing optimal parameters in design space with a reduction in computational resources. If successful, this research will result in a counterintuitive paradigm shift that will make it possible to identify highly competitive products and systems that are well beyond today's state of the art. An intensive dissemination plan will allow the research findings to reach the broader research and industry communities. The ultimate result of this effort is consumer products of vastly higher economic, environmental, and engineering performance.