ASDL counts with collocated state-of-the-art facilities to support the analysis and design of complex systems and decision making. These three assets leverage computational and visualization technologies to distill information from expert knowledge, transform and reprocess information and present it to the decision maker to enable holistic understanding of the comprehensive problem at hand.

Collaborative Visualization Environment (CoVE)

The CoVE provides designers of complex systems with the capability to explore design spaces with hundreds of design parameters and incorporating multiple analyses. This collaborative environment allows the decision-makers to interact with the multiple domain experts and analysts, who may be located at different sites.

Collaborative Design Environment (CoDE)

The CoDE enables researchers to develop, test and apply new approaches to conceptual design by utilizing high-fidelity modeling, simulation and analysis tools in a collaborative, team-centered environment. It can also support student teams participating in select graduate-level design competitions.

Computational Resource (CoRe)

CoDE users are also able to draw upon ASDL’s high-performance computational infrastructure for real-time physics-based collaborative design and strategic decision-making. This massive-parallel “Computational Resource” (CoRe) consists of three major subsystems:

• A computational cluster with 256 processors
• A 7 Terabyte storage subsystem
• An Infiniband high-speed network