A Collaborative Problem-Solving Environment for Weld Process Modeling Background

The work proposed here will investigate innovative approaches to the use of distributed high performance computing (HPC) resources for scientific and engineering simulations. This work is motivated by the expectation that within a few years the primary method of accessing HPC machines will be through sophisticated problem-solving environments (PSEs). A PSE is a complete, integrated software environment for the computational solution of a particular problem, or class of related problems, that provides an end user with easy-to-use problem solving power based on state-of-the-art algorithms, tools, and software infrastructure [1,2].