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

在开发商业上成功的环保产品的挑战越来越大的推动下，美国工业正在将基于模拟的设计提升到一个新的水平，远远超出了当今计算机的能力。因此，全面探索设计空间选项集的迫切需要受到严重影响。由此产生的后果是：经济竞争力下降，环保意识下降。这个小型探索性研究拨款(SGER)项目建议探索一种激进的新想法，它可能会从字面上崩溃(至少崩溃一个数量级)，这是复杂系统建模的特征计算爆炸。特别是，这个项目将探索一个令人费解的概念，即通过实际上从根本上减少计算工作量，有可能获得更高的精度和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，提供证据表明它可以在减少计算资源的情况下改进在设计空间中确定最佳参数的工作。如果成功，这项研究将导致一种违反直觉的范式转变，使人们有可能识别出远远超出当今最先进水平的具有高度竞争力的产品和系统。一项密集的传播计划将使研究成果能够到达更广泛的研究和行业社区。这一努力的最终结果是消费产品具有更高的经济、环境和工程性能。

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.