InGrid - Innovative Grid Developments for Engineering Applications

In-Grid is one of six community projects in the German D-Grid initiative, funded by the Ministry for Education and Research (Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung). In-Grid will enable engineering projects for Grid-based application and efficient use of common compute and software resources.

The community project In-Grid provides a Grid environment for engineering applications. The flexible use of Grid technologies will combine the competences in modeling, simulation and optimization and allow for the common, efficient use of distributed resources.

Six typical applications (interactive visualization, foundry technologies, metal forming technologies, groundwater flow and transport, turbine simulation and fluid-structure interaction) are considered as showcases in order to cover the three central areas of computationally intensive engineering applications that are coupled multi-scale problems, coupled multi-discipline problems, and distributed simulation-based optimization. In particular, adaptive and scalable process models and Grid based runtime environments for these tasks are developed.

The project is concerned with basic research as well as application oriented research to establish a Grid-based, networked software infrastructure for the support of scientific engineering work. The results can be used on three levels, in order to interlink research, development and production strategies: by direct exertion of influence on engineering applications at the involved universities; by transfer of the developed methods and tools into the German economy; by implementation of the developed software components into German and European e-Science infrastructures.