Pilot Applications on a Gigabit European Integrated Network

Objective

PAGEIN aims to demonstrate, exploit and characterise key features of High Performance Computing (HPC) on IBC usage by the aerospace industries. Computational Fluid Dynamics has been taken as typical activity of the pre-design phase be carried-on by a multi-site, multi-company, European conception team. Super computers of different architectures situated in different countries are utilised to tackle complex tasks which would be otherwise intractable.
The main objective of the research were to characterize, demonstrate and exploit some key features of high performance computing (HPC) on integrated broadband communications (IBC) usage by the aerospace industries. Computational fluid dynamics and industrial predesign were addressed on a European scale by expert teams. Supercomputers of different architectures situated in different countries were utilized to tackle complex tasks which would be otherwise intractable.

The research resulted in the following:
definition of project requirements, common architecture, and communications topology for experimenting with high performance computing and IBC usage by the aerospace industries was completed;
the user requirements specific to aerospace networking have made a significant contribution to an advisory committee on high performance computing;
a proposal synthesizing various European aerospace industry experiments was evaluated in the optical network interconnection call;
a rapid prototype of collaborative visualization using multimedia was demonstrated.
Technical Approach

Users have closely followed development teams who have transformed existing applications into heterogeneous distributed applications, taking into consideration results of R1038 and R2060 as well as those of Brite Euram Aero 0006 and IMT3 AER2-CT92-0031. Testbeds have been set up, using transitory PDH technology, partly developed by PAGEIN partners. ATM technology was also introduced on testbeds to prepare the evolution of PTO technologies. On these testbeds a significant number of experiments take place in parallel. This approach is comparable with that of the Gigabit Testbed programme in the United States.

PAGEIN in 1995 concentrates on the diffusion of the collaboration and distribution concepts among an extended group of industrial partners.

Key Issues

- Establishment and mapping of real end user services onto a multi-Mbit/s trans-European network interconnection.
- Demonstration of co-operative heterogeneous super computing (meta-computers) over European distances.
- Demonstration of Collaborative Visualisation Applications, supported by multimedia technologies.
- Cross fertilising of end users and network designers.
- Early cross-border usage of ATM communications.


Expected Impact

PAGEIN should result in a significant contribution to Europe's ability for usage of IBC to solve key problems of co-operation with controlled sharing of technology. A major impact will be to demonstrate to PTOs and the IBC community that increased computation power, expected to spread widely in the coming five years, can generate increased communication needs.

Development of a fully operational environment for distributed design applications is a large investment for early users. Justification of such investment requires further convincing steps: progress towards operational usage in the community of potential aeronautical users demands both an enlarged consensus and an enlarged communication basis. Such actions will be the basis of the 1995 activity.

Fields of science

• humanities › arts › modern and contemporary art › radio and television
• natural sciences › mathematics › pure mathematics › topology
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › information engineering › telecommunications › telecommunications networks › optical networks
• natural sciences › physical sciences › classical mechanics › fluid mechanics › fluid dynamics › computational fluid dynamics
• engineering and technology › electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering › electronic engineering › computer hardware › supercomputers

Programme(s)

• FP3-RACE 2 - Specific research and technological development programme (EEC) in the field of communication technologies, 1990-1994

Topic(s)

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Call for proposal

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Funding Scheme

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Coordinator

Office National d'Études et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA)

Address

29 Avenue De La Division Leclerc
92322 Châtillon
France

Participants (16)

AEROSPATIALE MATRA SA

France

Address

Boulevard De Montmorency 37
75781 Paris

British Aerospace Defence Ltd

United Kingdom

Address

Warton Aerodrome
PR4 1AX Preston

Centro Italiano Ricerche Spaziali SpA

Italy

Address

Via Maiorise
81043 Capua

DASSAULT AVIATION SA

France

Address

78 Quai Marcel Dassault
92214 Saint-cloud

Defence Research Agency (DRA)

United Kingdom

Address

GU14 6TD Farnborough

Deutsche Aerospace Airbus GmbH

Germany

Address

Hünefeldstraße 1-5
28199 Bremen

EUROPEAN AEROSPACE NETWORK SERVICES

France

Address

28 Rue De La Redoute
92260 Fontenay-aux-roses

FRANCE CABLES ET RADIO

France

Address

124 Rue De Reaumur
75091 . Paris

FRANCE TELECOM EXPERTEL

France

Address

25, Rue Des Jeuneurs
75002 Paris

FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.

Germany

Address

Nobelstrasse 12
70569 Stuttgart

GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTRE

Germany

Address

Bunsenstraße 10
37073 Goettingen

Institut National de Recherches en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)

France

Address

Domaine De Voluceau Rocquencourt
78153 Le Chesnay

NLR

Netherlands

Address

1006 BM Amsterdam

SLX

France

Address

1 Bis Rue Watteau
92400 Courbevoie

Universität Stuttgart

Germany

Address

Allmandring 30
70550 Stuttgart

VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL

Belgium

Address

Pleinlaan 2
B1050 Bruxelles