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StepUp
Engineers at the Savannah River National Laboratory (SRNL) have developed a software
toolkit, StepUp, for coarse-node parallelization of chemical process facility
simulations. The StepUp toolkit allows a chemical process simulation to be
divided across multiple computers on an existing company network. This can
be envisioned by treating the computers as separate unit operations or small
groupings of unit operations. The material transfers between these unit operation
sections become data transmissions over the computer network. In this way,
a chemical process facility can be segregated and simulated over a network
of
computational resources instead of being confined to a single computer.
Market Assessment
This software toolkit can be used by any company or government organization
using chemical process simulation software. It is particularly useful for
organizations with large, complex, or otherwise computational expensive
simulations. Although the capability provided by StepUp would be highly
valued by a variety of industries, it is envisioned that the primary customer
is the chemical process software companies themselves.
Patent Status
Patent filed
Stage of Development
The StepUp tool kit has been shown to run an overall simulation correctly. The
models are executed on appropriate nodes; proper time synchronization is
maintained over the simulation; and material transfers are communicated
between the computational nodes. There is still work to be done to improve
the robustness and asynchronous scheduling operations.
Contact
John Olschon, Licensing Associate
803-725-8125
john.olschon@srnl.doe.gov
For More Information
See tech brief.
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