I-Corps: On Demand Simulations in the Cloud of the Equations of Mathematical Physics

I-Corps：数学物理方程云中的按需模拟

• 批准号: 1640789
• 负责人: Nail Gumerov
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland, College Park
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-05-15 至 2017-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1640789&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Corps; Demand; Simulations; Cloud; Equations

Numerical simulations, data-driven approaches and computer modeling are used more widely than ever, and have become an essential part of the creation of new products in diverse industries (mineral exploration, drug development, automotive, aerospace, finance, electronics, photonics, mechanical design and development, and defense). Under previous NSF funding the researchers have developed extremely fast approaches based on the fast multipole method to do simulations in acoustics, fluid mechanics and electromagnetics. They have also developed parallel approaches to accelerate their algorithms via the cluster hardware accelerated by graphic processors. The simulation industry is currently a niche industry, with several relatively small companies serving different industries with specific pieces of software. However, it is ripe for disruption and broadening - by taking advantage of advances in infrastructure - cloud and heterogeneous GPU accelerated computing; and the development of software engineering approaches that have shown that many traditional tasks that were done locally on a user's computer in the past, can now be delivered as a service using the network and the cloud infrastructures that are widely available. In the proposed I-Corps project the proposed team will investigate the possibility that such an approach may be commercially viable.This I-Corps team has already been requested by a number of commercial entities for software simulations services for simulation of electromagnetic and acoustical scattering from complex objects. Through the I-Corps process, this team will be able to place these requests in context, and develop a larger plan for creating a successful company. The team will understand the steps needed to develop a service around high performance computing (HPC) methods and capabilities available via cloud computing, the use of advanced co-processors, such as graphics processors, and advanced scalable algorithms, such as the fast multipole methods. Based on the feed-back received in the I-Corps customer interview process, the team can add a number of capabilities to the codes, such as their efficient mapping into distributed computing systems, where each computing node consists of several CPU cores and one (1) or several GPUs. At the end of the I-Corps project, the team plans to provide a demonstration in which the proposed software is used to provide high performance cloud computing and interfacing for some basic problems in electrostatics and acoustics. The selection of the demonstration application will be guided by the customer discovery efforts undertaken in the I-Corps curriculum. The key outcome of this development will be a demo that can subsequently be applied and built upon to show off our technology to potential customers and investors.

数值模拟、数据驱动方法和计算机建模的应用比以往任何时候都更加广泛，并且已成为不同行业（矿产勘探、药物开发、汽车、航空航天、金融、电子、光子学、机械设计和开发以及国防）新产品创造的重要组成部分。在之前的NSF资助下，研究人员开发了基于快速多极方法的极快方法，用于声学，流体力学和电磁学的模拟。他们还开发了并行方法，通过图形处理器加速的集群硬件来加速他们的算法。仿真行业目前是一个利基行业，有几家相对较小的公司为不同的行业提供特定的软件。然而，通过利用基础设施的进步，云和异构GPU加速计算的中断和扩展已经成熟;软件工程方法的发展表明，过去在用户计算机上本地完成的许多传统任务现在可以使用广泛可用的网络和云基础设施作为服务提供。在拟议的I-Corps项目中，拟议的小组将调查这种方法在商业上可行的可能性，一些商业实体已经要求该I-Corps小组提供软件模拟服务，用于模拟复杂物体的电磁和声学散射。通过I-Corps流程，该团队将能够将这些请求置于背景中，并制定一个更大的计划，以创建一个成功的公司。该团队将了解围绕云计算提供的高性能计算（HPC）方法和功能开发服务所需的步骤，使用高级协处理器（如图形处理器）和高级可扩展算法（如快速多极方法）。根据在I-Corps客户访谈过程中收到的反馈，团队可以为代码添加许多功能，例如将其有效映射到分布式计算系统，其中每个计算节点由多个CPU核心和一个（1）或多个GPU组成。在I-Corps项目结束时，该团队计划提供一个演示，其中所提出的软件用于提供高性能云计算和静电和声学中一些基本问题的接口。示范应用程序的选择将由I-Corps课程中进行的客户发现工作指导。这一开发的主要成果将是一个演示，随后可以应用并建立在向潜在客户和投资者展示我们的技术的基础上。