Title
A Virtual Prototyping Platform to Improve CAE Analysis Workflow
Abstract
This paper describes an experimental software system that allows interfacing a virtual immersive environment with Computer Aided Engineering CAE open source software aiming for improving and simplifying design process and results evaluation. System includes a middleware to execute jobs on HPC architectures and to compare results of server-class processors with GPGPU hardware. The main innovation of the overall system is the possibility to setup the CAE job directly inside the virtual reality platform speeding-up the entire process. User evaluations on selected case studies show how the use of a virtual environment may enhance the perception of engineers ideas during the design process. In addition, the use of a system that allows reconfiguring and relaunching the job simplifies setup of job configuration. Results also show that HPC hardware based on GPGPU offers a perceivable speedup for problems with an high number of nodes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2015
10.1007/978-3-319-22888-4_20
AVR
Keywords
Field
DocType
Virtual prototyping,Computer graphics,Virtual reality,Software engineering,Message oriented middleware,Computer aided engineering,High performance computing
Middleware,Computer-aided engineering,Virtual machine,Computer science,Software system,Engineering design process,Design process,Workflow,Embedded system,Virtual prototyping
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
9254
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
9
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Francesco Argese100.34
Andrea Martini200.34
Lucio Colizzi300.34
Marco Fina400.34
Giovanni Reo500.34
Fiorenzo Ambrosino601.69
Pasquale Bene700.34
Leonardo Cosma800.34