STTR Phase I: Ultra-large and low-cost electrodynamic modeling in commercial clouds

这个小型企业创新研究第一阶段项目的更广泛的影响/商业潜力是使任何人能够通过互联网访问极其强大的计算设施来执行科学计算。在现代工程的许多领域，如太阳能电池、汽车、航空航天和通信设备中，高性能计算对于计算原型至关重要。然而，巨大的障碍使普通工程师很难轻松访问强大的计算设施。通过利用低成本的商业云，该项目将开发关键技术，使商业云能够执行极高性能的科学计算，从而显著降低成本并提高高性能计算的可获得性。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第一阶段项目将开发克服使用商业云进行高性能计算的关键挑战的技术。与高性能计算机不同，商用云不是为科学计算而设计的。它们具有高延迟、中断的可用性和资源的异构性。这些特点使得进行科学计算变得困难。该项目将开发新的计算方法，充分考虑到商业云的异构性。它使任何人都可以通过易于使用的界面在任何地方访问高性能科学计算。计算以按需服务的形式提供。工程师不需要拥有任何高性能计算机，计算资源几乎是无限的。

The broader impact/commercial potential of this Small Business Innovation Research Phase I project is to enable anyone with internet to access extremely powerful computing facilities to perform scientific computing. High performance computing is essential for computational prototyping in many areas of modern engineering, such as solar cells, automobiles, aerospace, and communication devices. However, significant barriers make it difficult for ordinary engineers to easily access powerful computing facilities. By leveraging the low-cost commercial cloud, the project will develop key technology that allow commercial clouds to perform extremely high performance scientific computing, thereby significantly reducing the cost and increasing the accessibility of high performance computing.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I project will develop technologies that overcome key challenges in using commercial clouds for high performance computing. Unlike high performance computers, commercial clouds are not designed for scientific computing. They have high latency, intermitted availability, and heterogeneously distributed resources. These features make it difficult to conduct scientific computing. This project will develop new computing methods that fully take into account the heterogeneous nature of the commercial cloud. It enables anyone to access high performance scientific computing anywhere with an easy-to-use interface. Computing is provided as on-demand service. Engineers would not need to own any high performance computers and the computing resources are virtually unlimited.