A Data-Centric Infrastructure for Multidisciplinary Analysis Integration and Management

Abstract : This paper presents the overall architecture of the VADOR application framework. The purpose of the VADOR framework is to enable the seamless integration of commercial and in-house analysis applications in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment, to allow the deployment of automatic design optimization algorithms and to provide a comprehensive data management infrastructure for design and analysis data. The emerging database will then provide the basis of a future knowledge-based engineering system and will allow IT links with other IT systems in the enterprise. A multi-tiered client-server architecture has been devised, which comprises a client GUI for interactive data definition and execution launching, separate data and execution servers, and autonomous remotely executable application wrappers.