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Enterprises are confronted with the challenge to lower cost of R&D and product engineering. More efficient transfer of know-how from R&D to engineering and between (generations of) engineers facilitates facing the challenge. Enterprise know-how has to be conserved in enterprises in the form of software such as for simulation, electronic documents and data. IT can enhance enterprise operation by giving engineers that work in or for the enterprise, easy access to the enterprise know-how. This requires a combination of distributed and centralized computing, a suitable network strategy and IT tools for management, control and use of the conserved enterprise know-how. In the paper the middleware SPINE for UNIX networks is described by which the network presents itself to the engineers as one single virtual computer. In the paper the considerations and the technical principles are illustrated by examples from two applications: a national virtual centre for Computational Fluid Dynamics for engineering and an IT framework for distributed multi-discipline design, analysis and optimisation of industry products. An estimation is given of the effort to be spent to realize and maintain such virtual single computers for a cooperating group.
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Abbreviations
- AQAP:
-
NATO Quality Assurance Requirements for Design/Development and Production
- CFD:
-
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- DOC:
-
Direct Operating Cost
- ESTEC:
-
European Space Research and Technology Centre
- HFS:
-
Nation Wide Virtual Centre for Flow Simulation in The Netherlands
- HPCN:
-
High Performance Computing and Networking
- IBM SP2:
-
American Parallel Scalar Computer with Distributed Memory
- ISNaS:
-
Computer Based Working Environment for CFD
- ismo:
-
Computer Based Cooperative Working Environment for MDO
- ISO:
-
International Organization for Standardization
- IT:
-
Information Technology
- MDO:
-
Multi-disciplinary Design, Analysis and Optimization of Aerospace Vehicles, Project
- MFLOP/s:
-
Mega Floating Point Operations per second
- NEC SX-4:
-
Japanese Parallel Vector Computer with Shared Memory
- NICE:
-
Project aiming at a Nation Wide Virtual Centre for CFD in The Netherlands
- NLR:
-
National Aerospace Laboratory in The Netherlands
- PSUE:
-
Parallel Simulation User Environment, Software Utility
- R&D:
-
Research and Development
- SPINE:
-
Software Utility for Presenting a Computer Network as one Single Virtual Computer to Users
- sx4dev:
-
A Collection of Tools for Development of Software for the SX-4
- TCP/IP:
-
Computer Communication Standard
- TNO-TPD:
-
Technical Physical Institute in The Netherlands
- UNIX:
-
Computer Operating System, Trademark
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Loeve, W., Vogels, M.E.S., van der Ven, H., Baalbergen, E.H. (1997). Network middleware for enterprise enhanced operation. In: Plonka, F., Olling, G. (eds) Computer Applications in Production and Engineering. CAPE 1997. IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-35291-6_48
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