Theme 5/6 High Performance Computing (HPC) and Simulation Knowledge Mining and Abstraction (SKMA)

制造一辆汽车的原型大约要花费50万英镑。在设计新车辆的过程中，以及在开发现有车辆的新版本时，需要构建许多原型。显然，任何能够减少所需原型数量的方法都将对汽车设计成本产生重大影响。仿真已经广泛应用于汽车工业。例如，在设计过程中评估汽车的耐撞性现在完全是通过计算来完成的。模拟创新计划的目的是增加模拟在汽车设计中的应用。事实上，它可以被视为朝着“虚拟车辆设计”的目标又迈出了重要的一步，在这个目标中，整个设计过程都是在计算机上进行的。然而，增加设计过程中使用的模拟量将大大增加对计算生态系统的需求，也许更严重的是，引入许多层的复杂性，这可能导致计算生态系统的低效使用和糟糕的决策。我们的工作旨在通过提高单个计算任务的效率来解决这些潜在问题，自动记录模拟数据以避免误解，允许数据重用并启用自动数据归档协议，最后，对虚拟车辆设计任务的复杂性进行建模，并在此基础上实施规则来解决计算和数据流以及设计过程决策阶段的冲突。

It costs roughly £0.5 million to build a prototype of a car. Many prototypes need to be constructed during the process of designing a new vehicle and also when developing a new version of an existing vehicle. Clearly, anything that can reduce the number of prototypes needed will have a significant impact on the cost of automobile design. Simulation is already used extensively in the automotive industry. For instance, assessing car crash worthiness during the design process is now entirely performed computationally. The aim of the Programme for Simulation Innovation is to increase the use of simulation in car design. Indeed it can be seen as a further significant step towards the goal of 'virtual vehicle design' where the entire design process is carried out on the computer. However, increasing the amount of simulation used in the design process will significantly increase the demands on the computational ecosystem and, perhaps more seriously, introduce many layers of complexity which could lead to inefficient use of the computational ecosystem and poor decision making. Our work is targeted at addressing these potential problems by increasing the efficiency of individual computational tasks, automatically documenting simulation data to avoid misintepretation, allow data re-use and enable automated data archiving protocols and, finally, modelling the complexity of the virtual vehicle design task and, based on this, implementing rules to resolve conflicts in the computational and data flows and in the decision stages of the design process.