Preliminary Design using Distributed Service-Based Computing

This paper presents an application of a distributed service-oriented architecture (FIPER) to the preliminary design of gas turbine. In this application, a one-dimensional analysis code is wrapped into an interface to create a network service. Several of these services are distributed across a grid of workstations. The FIPER architecture uses a service catalog that registers all the services that are started on the network. These services are then discovered in real time and used by the design process. This architecture is used to simulate the turbine configuration optimization process that requires repeated evaluations of the analysis code. The paper presents the scaling results when different number of services is started on the network