Visualisation in Grid Enabled Optimisation and Design Search for Engineering Marc Molinari, Sam Goul

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Visualisation inGrid Enabled Optimisation and
Design Search for Engineering Marc Molinari,
Sam GouldUniversity of Southampton

• http//www.geodise.org

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Projects _at_ Southampton

• Geodise Grid-Enabled Optimisation and Design
  Search for Engineering
• GEM Grid-enabled electromagnetic optimisation
• G-Yacht Yacht CFD and analysis tool
• G-Ship Ship motion analysis tool
• G-Hydroflex Hydroelastic properties of vessels
• G-Civil Geo-technical data for civil eng.

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Geodise / GEM Architecture
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Visualisation Requirements
CAD Data
Draw, define geometry, rotate, zoom, pan, add
Mesh Data 1000 - 106 elementsFilesize 1kB
100 MB
Rotate, zoom, pan, select 3D, geometry
repair x/y/z coordinates, points, edges, faces,
elements
Solution DataFilesize up to 2 GB
Rotate, zoom, pan, identify coordinates vector
plots, scalar colouring, particle traces
Images / Animation
Thumbnails, Movies, Videos
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G-Yacht Visualisation
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Possible Solutions
Low Level Routines
Visualisation Software

• Open GL / Glut
• Java 3D

• Open DX
• IRIS Explorer
• AVS Express
• Field View

Tool packages

• VTK

Engineering Software
Formats on the Web

• Matlab, etc.

• VRML
• SVG
• XML-based?

UK e-Science Programme

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Discussion

• How is it done on the Grid?
• What data transfer mechanisms?
• Where does data get stored?
• Which formats / open standards?
• Software technology (Java, XML, )?
• Server / Client infrastructure?
• How can user interaction take place?
• Is collaborative work possible?