SIMDAT Success Stories

Since it's launch in 2004 SIMDAT has successfully installed Grids in various industrial prototypes in the aerospace, automotive, pharmacology and meteorology sectors. The results achieved in the four application activities feed into the SIMDAT Success Stories.

SIMDAT Auto Activity

: (c) AUDI AG

The final SIMDAT success story is based on the project achievements of the Automotive Activity. The automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and suppliers involved, supported by software vendors, have deployed, operated and evaluated demonstrators to prove the feasibility and benefits of the SIMDAT Automotive technologies and problem solving environments (PSE) in a Grid environment. ...read more...

SIMDAT Pharma Activity

: Influenza virus (c) EMBL

The third SIMDAT success story covers the Grid-based PSE set-up by the SIMDAT Pharmaceutical Activity to seamlessly integrate information from protein databases, positively tested drug candidate results, screening process data and molecular information irrespective of the place where data has been generated. ...read more...

SIMDAT Aero Activity

: Airbus A380 (c) Airbus

The second SIMDAT success story focusses on the Aerospace Activity: The SIMDAT partners BAE Systems, EADS Innovation Works, IT Innovation and the School of Engineering Sciences at the University of Southampton have set up a virtual organisation (VO) offering a multidisciplinary optimisation service provided by sites located across Europe. ...read more...

SIMDAT Meteo Activity

The first SIMDAT success story is based on the achievements of the Meteorological Activity: Answering the call of the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) for a single coordinated global infrastructure which offers a virtual and consistent view of the vast amount for data distributed geographically the SIMDAT Meteo partners worked jointly on the initial development of the concept of a Virtual Global Information System for Discovery and Exchange of Environmental Data (VGISC). ...read more...