CAD grid: Corporate-wide resource sharing for parameter studies

Abstract

The optimization process for most modern engineering problems involves a repeated modeling of the target system, simulating its properties, and refining the model based on the results. This process is both time and resource consuming and therefore needs to rely on a distributed resource sharing framework in order to optimally exploit the existing resources and minimize the response time for the design engineers. We have implemented such a framework for the design process of high voltage components and have shown its applicability to a real industrial environment. First results are very encouraging and show a high acceptance rate with the end-users. In addition, experiments with various different models show the profound impact of the optimization on the design of high-voltage components. © Springer-Verlag 2003.