Integration of high performance computing applications in the PLM-landscape

The Department of Computer Integrated Design of TU-Darmstadt conducted a survey from August to November 2006 to assess the current state of the art of industrial applications of High Performance Computing (HPC) in the Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) domain. The main focus has been set on the assessment of requirements of data and process integration of HPC-related activities into the Product Life-Cycle Management (PLM) environment. Leading car manufacturers, component and CAE-service suppliers in Germany were major participants of the survey study. This contribution presents the results of the evaluation and states requirements of an integration approach for data management of HPC-applications. Finally an architectural framework will be proposed to implement HPC-data management into the existing PLM landscape.