High Performance Parallel Processing Project (HPPPP) Advanced Materials Designs for Massively Parall

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
B Bosl ◽  
T Keller ◽  
J Northrup



Author(s):  
Karl V. Hoose ◽  
Eric E. Shorey

The traditional reciprocating I.C. engine has evolved to a point where significant improvements in thermal efficiency and specific power are not expected. Modifications to existing engines may prove to be difficult and expensive while resulting in only marginal gains. In addition, most modifications result in added components that often increase cost and decrease reliability of the system as a whole. For applications requiring major advances in performance, such as unmanned vehicles, meeting mission requirements will likely stem from a revolutionary rather than an evolutionary engine design. The slider crank mechanism is a major impediment to the traditional reciprocating I.C. engine. Although this mechanism has been used for the past 100 years, it is very wasteful of the available energy supplied by the combustion process, where piston-liner interactions from this arrangement accounts for 50–70% of the total friction losses in this engine design. Eliminating the slider crank could significantly reduce friction losses and provide additional benefits that can increase fuel conversion efficiency. The HiPerTEC engine is an opposed, free-piston engine arranged in a toroidal configuration with two counter reciprocating sets of pistons. The counter reciprocating masses eliminate the vibration found in linear free-piston engines. The HiPerTEC employs a unique shared volume configuration where the swept volume is twice the physical cylinder volume. This attribute offers a significant increase in specific power, while the free-piston characteristics provide for substantial gains in thermodynamic cycle efficiency. An eight cylinder/chamber arrangement offers balanced operation in both two and four-stroke cycle modes to allow for a wide operating envelope. The final HiPerTEC configuration will require advanced materials to address lubrication and cooling requirements. This paper discusses the HiPerTEC design, operating characteristics, development progress to date, and the challenges that lie ahead.



1992 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anita Jindal ◽  
Ross Overbeek ◽  
WaldoC. Kabat


2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (11) ◽  
pp. 155014772110331
Author(s):  
Jung-hyun Seo ◽  
HyeongOk Lee

One method to create a high-performance computer is to use parallel processing to connect multiple computers. The structure of the parallel processing system is represented as an interconnection network. Traditionally, the communication links that connect the nodes in the interconnection network use electricity. With the advent of optical communication, however, optical transpose interconnection system networks have emerged, which combine the advantages of electronic communication and optical communication. Optical transpose interconnection system networks use electronic communication for relatively short distances and optical communication for long distances. Regardless of whether the interconnection network uses electronic communication or optical communication, network cost is an important factor among the various measures used for the evaluation of networks. In this article, we first propose a novel optical transpose interconnection system–Petersen-star network with a small network cost and analyze its basic topological properties. Optical transpose interconnection system–Petersen-star network is an undirected graph where the factor graph is Petersen-star network. OTIS–PSN n has the number of nodes 102n, degree n+3, and diameter 6 n − 1. Second, we compare the network cost between optical transpose interconnection system–Petersen-star network and other optical transpose interconnection system networks. Finally, we propose a routing algorithm with a time complexity of 6 n − 1 and a one-to-all broadcasting algorithm with a time complexity of 2 n − 1.



2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mehdi Gilaki ◽  
Ilya Avdeev

In this study, we have investigated feasibility of using commercial explicit finite element code LS-DYNA on massively parallel super-computing cluster for accurate modeling of structural impact on battery cells. Physical and numerical lateral impact tests have been conducted on cylindrical cells using a flat rigid drop cart in a custom-built drop test apparatus. The main component of cylindrical cell, jellyroll, is a layered spiral structure which consists of thin layers of electrodes and separator. Two numerical approaches were considered: (1) homogenized model of the cell and (2) heterogeneous (full) 3-D cell model. In the first approach, the jellyroll was considered as a homogeneous material with an effective stress-strain curve obtained through experiments. In the second model, individual layers of anode, cathode and separator were accounted for in the model, leading to extremely complex and computationally expensive finite element model. To overcome limitations of desktop computers, high-performance computing (HPC) techniques on a HPC cluster were needed in order to get the results of transient simulations in a reasonable solution time. We have compared two HPC methods used for this model is shared memory parallel processing (SMP) and massively parallel processing (MPP). Both the homogeneous and the heterogeneous models were considered for parallel simulations utilizing different number of computational nodes and cores and the performance of these models was compared. This work brings us one step closer to accurate modeling of structural impact on the entire battery pack that consists of thousands of cells.



Author(s):  
Bhaskar Botcha ◽  
Zimo Wang ◽  
Sudarshan Rajan ◽  
Natarajan Gautam ◽  
Satish T. S. Bukkapatnam ◽  
...  

Prior R&D efforts point to substantial performance enhancements and energy savings from adopting the Smart Manufacturing (SM) paradigm for process optimization and real-time quality assurance. Significant barriers and risks disincentivize the industry from investing in the adoption and training of SM component suites for discrete manufacturing applications. A diverse discrete part manufacturing enterprises, SM tools and platform vendors are yearning for a testbed reconfigurable to achieve three objectives of performance benchmarking, demonstration, and workforce training for a spectrum of their industrial scenarios and workflows. This paper presents the key ingredients towards the successful transformation of present machine tool and manufacturing environments into SM platform-integrated environments. The present implementation focuses on demonstration of the use of the Smart Manufacturing (SM) platform towards qualification of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies to meet an industry-specified functionality. This initial implementation uses Kepler workflow system residing as part of an Amazon Web Services environment to allow flexible workflows on multiple machines, each of which is integrated with an innovative sensor wrapper that integrates Commercial Off The Shelf (COTS) components from National Instruments (NI) to connect a legacy equipment to the SM platform. Here, an advanced analytics engine with modules customizable for both high-performance computing and shop floor environments was integrated into the commercial web service (from Amazon) to provide real-time monitoring and anomaly detection capability. This implementation indicates the potential of SM platform to achieve drastic reductions in the time and effort taken towards qualification of advanced materials and manufacturing technologies.



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