The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory
Carmen M. Pancerella, Larry A. Rahn, Christine L. Yang · 1999
The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory (DCC) is a pilot project to develop and deploy collaborative technologies to combustion researchers distributed throughout the DOE national laboratories, academia, and industry.The result is a problem-solving environment for combustion research.Researchers collaborate over the Internet using DCC tools, which include: a distributed execution management system for running combustion models on widely distributed computers, including supercomputers; webaccessible data archiving capabilities for sharing graphical experimental or modeling data; electronic notebooks and shared workspaces for facilitating collaboration; visualization of combustion data; and video-conferencing and data-conferencing among researchers at remote sites.Security is a key aspect of the collaborative tools.In many cases, we have integrated these tools to allow data, including large combustion data sets, to flow seamlessly, for example, from modeling tools to data archives.In this paper the authors describe the work of a larger collaborative effort to design, implement and deploy the DCC.The Diesel Combustion Collaboratory (DCC) is a research pilot project that includes collaborators distributed among Department of Energy (DOE) national laboratories (Sandia National Laboratories (SNL}, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)), the University of Wisconsin, and industry partners (Caterpillar, Cummins Engine, and Detroit Diesel).It is funded by the Department of Energy's DOE 2000 program in the Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research.The project also benefits from a strong coupling to other DOE 2000 projects funded to develop collaborative tools and services.The DCC itself is a problem-solving environment for combustion researchers.The goal of the DCC is to make doing the science, engineering, and information exchange for the combustion researchers more efficient.High-speed networking, computer security, distributed computing technology (i.e.CORBAbased frameworks for connecting data and resources), data visualization, and collaborative tools are part of the underlying infrastructure for the DCC.At this time remote instrumentation is not part of the DCC.Unique to the Diesel Combustion Collaboratory is a software architecture that allows collaborative tools to be integrated in a secure fashion and facilitates data exchange among tools.This paper discusses the applications area, the DCC requirements, the DCC architecture and design, DCC security, and DCC deployment.