Enabling Interoperation of High Performance, Scientific Computing Applications: Modeling Scientific Data with the Sets and Fields (SAF) Modeling System
Mark C. Miller, J F Reus, Robb P. Matzke, William J. Arrighi, L.A. Schoof, Ray T. Hitt, Peter K. Espen · Lecture notes in computer science · 2001
This paper describes the sand Fields (SAF) scientific data modeling system; a revolutionary approach to interoperation of high performance, scientific computing applications based upon rigorous, math-oriented data modeling principles. Previous technologies have required all applications to use the same data structures and/or meshes to represent scientific data or lead to an ever expanding set of incrementally different data structures and/or meshes. SAF addresses this problem by providing a small set of mathematical building blocks—sets, relations and fields—out of which a wide variety of scientific data can be characterized. Applications literally model their data by assembling these building blocks. A short historical perspective, a conceptual model and an overview of SAF along with preliminary results from its use in a few ASCI codes are discussed. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.