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Current Projects
Simulation Environment for Onboard Fire Network Model
The simulation environment provides a runtime environment for a third-party simulation package (currently a network model developed by Hughes associates,Inc.). More...
Virtual Organization for Cyber Design
Southern Regional Center for Lighweight Innovative Design - Budget Period 2...
$1,980,000.00 Awarded for continuation of the Southern Regional Center for Lightweight Innovative Design (SRCLID) Budget Period 2
NASA Rapid Prototyping Capability
The goal of a Rapid Prototyping Capability (RPC) is to speed the evaluation of potential uses of NASA research products and technologies to improve future operational systems by reducing the time to access, configure, and assess the effectiveness of NASA products and technologies. The developed RPC will accomplish this goal and contribute to NASA's Strategic Objective to advance scientific knowledge of the Earth system through space-based observation, assimilation of new observations, and development and deployment of enabling technologies, systems and capabilities including those with potential to improve future operational systems. More...
Web-based Repository of Material Properites
Cyberinfrastructure for Multiscale Simulations of Material Properites
Cyberinfrastructure for Design Optimizations
FSSIM
Have worked with the Safety and Survivability Center at NRL to provide funding of $195,000 for this year's scope of work. In addition, the Electric Ship Program has funded the project for Five years at $100,000 plus per year. We are currently negotiating with the Canadian Government forits use. Also pursuing other opportunities with Seaworthy Systems in the commercial industry.More...
FSSIM Development 2010
Assisted in obtaining an extension of funding for the FSSIM Development Project with NRL totaling $499,837.

Past Projects
Distributed Marine Environment Forecast System
The world's geopolitical structure has changed radically in the past decade. Breathtaking changes in global and regional alliances have fundamentally restructured the nature and mission of America's defense forces. The overall mission of the U.S. Navy remains unchanged, but to keep open lines of global trade, the places where the Navy will likely be called on to do its duty have changed dramatically. No longer merely called on to maintain open-ocean superiority, today's Naval operations are increasingly littoral and regional. Oceanic prediction in the littoral is vastly more complex than in the open ocean. The temporal and special scales of variability are much shorter; the parameters of DoD interest, such as waves, storm surge, optical clarity, tide, sediment transport, beach traffic ability, currents, temperature, salinity, etc., are very different. In addition, the real time or even historic observations of these parameters, in many areas of potential interest, are either very restricted or limited at best. This rapid shift in emphasis has left the computational and modeling wing of the U.S. Navy with an emerging need to address this increasingly important style and scale of operations. More...
Computational Vortals for Next Generation Scalable Computing
Clusters are becoming ubiquitous, cost effective means for large-scale computation at most universities and industrial settings. Clusters of desktop computers connected through high-speed network have become an alternative to vector and massively parallel supercomputers (MPP). Scheduling of processes onto processors of a parallel machine has always been an important and challenging area of research. The research is challenging because of the numerous factors involved in implementing a scheduler. Some of these influencing factors are: the parallel workload, the presence of any sequential and/or interactive jobs, the characteristics of the native operating system, hardware, network interface, etc. The recent shift towards the adoption of clusters for cost effective parallel computing makes the design of an efficient scheduler even more crucial and challenging. Traditional solutions that have been used in conventional parallel systems are not adequately tuned to handle the diverse workloads and performance criteria required by cluster environments. More...
SPURport: Grid Portal for SPUR Project
Under this effort, currently underway, a Web-based distributed interactive simulation framework is being created to facilitate investigation of the response of urban regions to a major earthquake and to educate future earthquake engineers. The goal is to provide damage estimates based on the best available information. Ultimately this will lead to earthquake related risk analysis enabling policy-makers and emergency response agencies to plan for remediation and emergency response through what-if scenarios. More...