Engineering Applications Sample Clauses

Engineering Applications. The Engineering Applications Unit is responsible for user support, training, and system enhancements for the AASHTOWare Project Bids, Preconstruction and SiteManager, PM Project Systems and Survey 123 Field Diaries.

Engineering Applications. Many manufacturing, construction, and design processes employ ICT simulation that allows engineers to design and verify products in a virtual, risk-free environment and minimize the need for physical prototypes and tests. Engineering simulations often involve resource savvy computations and often demand hardware acceleration of high-end graphics like 3D graphics applications, e. g. for rendering large models of space crafts, automobiles, or submarines. In older environments, many engineers have workstations for 3D design, in addition to the equipment they use to run enterprise applications and collaboration tools such as email and instant messaging. This multiple workstation model was inefficient and costly and did not lend itself well for the type of collaboration necessary to enable real-time review of component designs. In today’s DC environments, engineering software, e.g. computer-aided design (CAD) or computer- aided manufacturing (CAM), computer-aided engineering (CAE), engineers work remotely, accessing specialized applications deployed in centralized product development centres from their private client equipment, as shown in Figure 2-4. In such product development environments, private or hosted, dedicated computing resources are typically deployed in support of a single workload, project, or organization. HPC clusters are often required to ensure adequate supply of resources to the engineering task at hand. These resources have to be managed and maintained, limiting the application portability, scale, and availability to geographically remote parts of the engineering team. Figure 2-4: Engineering workflow with centralized computational resources