ILLINOISROCSTAR LLC — Department of Energy SBIR Phase I: 03b

Description

Lack of availability, usability, and the cost of development, ownership, and operation of high performance compute-ready simulation capabilities are significant barriersto utilization of modeling & simulation for American industry- Most open-source, free technologies are difficult to use and/or not validated to the extent needed for industrial application-Many commercial tools that are easy to use, are very expensive to own-Updating and web-enabling simulation tools can produce capabilities that are both easy to use and openly available- The goal is to modernize and add additional capabilitiesto an Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative-developed multiphysics simulation application and distribute it with an open source license using a combination of in-house and externally available technologies- A web-enabled graphical interface will bring the technology to many more users than are possible with the existing command-line processing- Expert users from government, industry, and academia currently employ the code on modern large cluster platforms for a variety of multiphysics simulations- When completed, this project will produce the only user-extensible, easy-to-use, open-source, massively parallel multiphysics application which stands ready to utilize the nation’s modern high performance computing resources-Once updated for capability, interface, ease of installation and use, the package will help lower the entry barriers to high performance computing-based modeling & simulation-