PFI-BIC: Partnership for Interoperable Components for Parallel Engineering Simulations

伦斯勒理工学院的这一创新伙伴关系项目将推动可扩展模拟工具的开发和交付，以支持公司在未来产品的设计和制造中有效地应用大规模并行计算。该项目将解决目前阻碍工业界利用成本效益高的大规模并行计算的进步以及在这些机器上大规模执行的单个分析组件数量不断增加的优势的技术差距。关键的技术进步将通过开发可互操作的接口来解决，这些接口可以有效地将各个模拟组件耦合在一起，以支持执行所需的完整的大规模并行模拟，以可靠地回答工程师和科学家感兴趣的性能问题。该项目的更广泛影响将导致有益于社会的新产品和服务，以及相关的经济效益。它将成为建设创新能力的有力工具。更广泛的影响将来自支持从新一代产品工程到医疗开发等广泛应用的创新的新技术。该项目开始时的合作伙伴是知识增强合作伙伴：伦斯勒理工学院科学计算研究中心，纽约州特洛伊；Kitware公司，纽约州克利夫顿公园；Pplant Energy Systems，纽约州布鲁克林；以及Simmetrix，Inc.，纽约州克利夫顿公园。其他合作伙伴：私营部门组织：Altair Engineering，Inc.，加利福尼亚州山景城和克利夫顿公园，纽约州；以及IBM，Armonk，纽约州；公共部门组织：科学，技术和创新部，帝国州发展部，纽约州奥尔巴尼。

This Partnerships for Innovation project from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will advance the development and delivery of scalable simulation tools to support companies in the effective application of massively parallel computing in the design and manufacture of future products. The project will address the technology gaps that are currently preventing industry from taking advantage of the advances in cost effective massively parallel computing and the growing number of individual analysis components that execute at scale on these machines. The key technical advancement will be addressed through the development of interoperable interfaces that can effectively couple individual simulation components together to support the execution of complete massively parallel simulations as needed to reliably answer the performance questions of interest to engineers and scientists. The broader impacts of this project will lead to new products and services of benefit to society, as well as to associated economic benefits. It will be a powerful tool for building innovation capacity. The broader impacts will follow from the new technologies that support innovation over a broad spectrum of applications ranging from the engineering of new generations of products, to the development of medical treatments. Partners at the inception of the project are Knowledge-Enhancement Partners: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Scientific Computation Research Center, Troy, NY; Kitware, Inc., Clifton Park, NY; Pliant Energy Systems, Brooklyn, NY; and Simmetrix, Inc., Clifton Park, NY. Other Partners: Private Sector Organization: Altair Engineering, Inc., Mountain View, CA and Clifton Park, NY;and IBM, Armonk, NY; Public Sector Organization: Division of Science, Technology and Innovation, Empire State Development, Albany, NY.