Eric Padiolleau, J. Radzion - 01/11/2009 - RC HTC -Hyperworks Technology conference… The EXPAMTION project is accredited by two French competitiveness clusters, MOV’EO and SYSTEM@TIC in order to investigate a shared simulation infrastructure that could be used by all people involved in the design of mechatronic components.

The goal for EXPAMTION is to experiment a collaborative design methodology with all actors of the supply chain using existing complementary simulation tools. The actors of the project are ALTAIR, BULL, CADLM, CETIM, INTES, MDP, SIMPOE, VALEO, UTC and UVSQ.

The definition of a methodology of work as well as the business model associated with it will give indications on the feasibility of such collaborative work environment with high power computing and software sharing. The objective is to achieve the design of environmentally-friendly products using high-performance computing resources to produce results unreachable with current non-collaborative design process. For example, based on highly intensive use of multi-disciplinary simulation, the reduction of CO2 emissions between 2 % to 6 % will be investigated by optimizing weightdistribution of structures, heat flow in exchangers and fluid flow in cooling systems. The key challenges to meet are the user data confidentiality in real scale shared mode, the real time license usage tracking management, the distant access to a secured infrastructure and the compatibility with the way of working of SMEs which will be involved in the process of parallel computing for the first time.

The paper will present how the actors achieve these goals with using Altair’s software for grid-computing (PBS GridWorks)and for license tracking (reporting based on HiQube).

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