| A high performance generic framework can greatly lower the cost of aircraft design. We present the design and implementation of a computing framework based on Multidisciplinary Design Optimization (MDO) theory. According to the requirement and basic principles of parallel computing, we have proposed a distributed pipeline solution. The framework has two major characteristics: 1) From the perspective of aircraft design, the framework made available to aircraft designers a simple and flexible computing model, so that they can concentrate on the description of work flow; 2) From the perspective of computer science, the framework hides the complex of parallel computing and explores the parallelism in computing. In general, we provide a bridge between parallel computing and engineering design. This article introduces two computing models. Design and implementation of underlay computing framework is also discussed. The framework has been applied to one aircraft design platform. Experiments show the good performance and scalability of the framework in medium-scaled and small-scaled applications. . |
