Objectives

The broad objective of the proposed research is to use and develop Grid technology as an enabler of large-scale and globally-distributed scientific and engineering research. This will be accomplished through the following specific objectives:

• establish and use a computational Grid between geographically distributed partners to enable different and complementary computational electromagnetics (CEM) analyses.
• explore means of securely sharing code and simulation capability by investigating so-called ‘black widow’ applications.
• devise and promote means of grid-enabling legacy simulation components (codes and ancillary software).generate generic capability/deliverables including: grid-enabled mesh generators, mesh/visualisation framework, visualisation software and a paradigm for migrating black-widow applications.
• use resource scheduling over widely disparate nodes with different bandwidth constraints.
• devise an interface, or accommodate exiting interfaces for GECEM, and
• explore the use of the Grid as a vehicle for ‘work share’ analyses within an extended computational enterprise.