Porting ANSYS Software to the Grid

The work performed to implement a complex engineering simulation software usecase on distributed systems making use of the IGI web portal is here presented and discussed. The work has been carried out within a collaboration with the User Support Unit of the Italian Grid Initiative (IGI) and the INFN-Legnaro National Laboratories (INFN-LNL).

Ported Sw: ANSYS

A web interface to run the simulation exploiting the production Grid services was provided through a dedicated portlet of the IGI Portal which is a powerful and easy to use gateway to distributed computing and storage resources. The web GUI was built in strong partnership with the user community interested in porting the application to gather their requirements

Web interface is reachable here: [[portal.italiangrid.it][IGI Portal] (need to be in the ANSYS group of the gridit VO to see the customized interface)

-- DanieleCesini - 2011-12-16