CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
15 February 2005
Product News
Phoenix Integration Launches CenterlinkT Grid Computing And Web-Based Collaboration Suite
Phoenix Integration, Inc., announced the release of its new CenterLink grid-computing product. CenterLink helps companies bring new products to market faster by:
• Harnessing grid-computing resources to significantly accelerate the optimization of design alternatives.
• Enhancing team collaboration to improve design process effectiveness.
• Enabling web-based monitoring and control for distributed access to the engineering process.
• Managing vast collections of simulation results for improved traceability of product design data.
According to Brett Malone, President and co-founder of Phoenix Integration, "CenterLink provides power for the process by supercharging design simulations and running integrated processes far more quickly through a unique grid computing server. Users collaborate by sharing the results in a web-based interface. This blend of web-based collaboration and simplified grid setup makes CenterLink unique in the market."
The core technology was developed through a 24-month collaboration with NASA to research advanced multidisciplinary design optimization (MDO). According to Dr. Jaroslaw Sobieski, a Senior Research Scientist at NASA Langley, "The technology developed through this collaboration with Phoenix provides a breakthrough in the product design process by accelerating complex design analysis and optimization."
Phoenix also released a new white paper titled "Accelerating Product Development Through Grid Computing" that provides a more in-depth technical look at the CenterLink technology. This paper and other CenterLink details are now available on Phoenix's web site: http://www.phoenix-int.com .
CenterLink, in combination with ModelCenter, provides a flexible framework to create an integrated design model and perform design trade off studies. Design engineers use various trade study techniques such as parametric studies, design of experiments (DOE), and optimization to understand the effects of design parameters on system performance and to find optimal designs that meet requirements. Trade studies are computationally expensive because they require the engineer to evaluate multiple design alternatives.
CenterLink is a Web service that integrates computing resources and works with ModelCenter to accelerate the design process, helping to reduce design cycle time and deliver superior products. A team of engineers can work collaboratively by sharing the results in a web-based interface. Users can login and view trade study results and the status of complex engineering jobs in progress. Once completed, users can download the results of their engineering simulations into a web-browser or directly into the ModelCenter environment.
CenterLink provides a unified interface of computing resources regardless of their types or locations so that client tools can use them in an integrated manner. CenterLink creates loosely connected groups of computers, minimizing reconfiguration of computing resources already existing in the organization. More computing resources can be easily added to CenterLink so that the performance of trade studies can grow in a scalable manner. Combined with ModelCenter, CenterLink enables parallel design studies for multidisciplinary complex analysis models. Built upon standard Web service technologies, CenterLink provides wide accessibility to computing resources and computed results, and achieves a robust system with greater usability.
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