A grid-based problem solving environment that uses the Master/Worker paradigm to parallelize DoE/RSM/Data-Fusion search computations

The long term aim of this work has been to prototype an Engineering Design PSE that can handle the broadening range of type of design studies being undertaken by BAE Systems, Rolls-Royce and the University Technology Partnership (UTP) for Design at Southampton University. Increasingly, we with to optimize designs with multi-fidelity, multi-disciplinary analysis methods, and where the analysis is computationally very time consuming. This means providing tools and intuitive interfaces to enable users to setup their applications in a seamless fashion, through the use of existing installed analysis codes and solvers. It also means being able to exploit Grid based and other computational clusters through the use of new distributed systems and parallel running methodologies (eg Globus software, Web Services, task farming etc