MEDICOS : An MDO-Enabling DIstributed COmputing System

This paper presents a computing system, called MEDICOS, that enables Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) technology for engineering design on distributed environments. In MDO, various legacy softwares have to be integrated, so dynamic configuration and seamless coordination between these legacy softwares must be supported. MEDICOS is designed to address these issues by the Linda shared memory model-based design and the agent-based wrapper technology. A　prototype system for engineering designs is developed and tested with designing a super high temperature vacuum furnace.