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CBET
Discussion - part 2
Session 4 Questions
If there is a CBET community, what do you consider to be the
leveraged industry problems? (E.g. US supply chains fuels and chemicals,
prediction/analysis of toxic drug effects, analysis of commodity processes,
zero incident management, etc.)
- Smart plants (chemical/petroleum)/Zero-incident management (including
homeland security issues): integrating sensor networks, communication
networks, and control systems.
- Integration of scheduling and planning with control systems
- Multiscale (microscopic/macroscopic) systems engineering (simulation
algorithms, optimization, control)
- Design of drug delivery systems, design and operation of semiconductor
manufacturing processes for next generation computing systems, task-oriented
polymer formulations, energy and environment.
If there is a CBET community, what are the most promising enabling
(CI) areas to tackle? (E.g., data interoperability,
security, smart plants, sensor networks, multi-scale modeling/simulation,
security, large scale optimization, etc.)
- Scalable, requirements-driven security (minimize overhead for different
needs)
- Educating industry (and academia!) about the potential and capabilities
of CI
- Making CI easier to use as well as more powerful
- Collaborative capabilities, e.g. data analysis, hypothesis generation,
etc
- Example: drug delivery vehicle design
- Multi-scale modeling & simulation
- Data interoperability (and platform interoperability) and metadata
definitions
- Large-scale optimization (of models and between models)
Should there be a CBET community aimed at CI? If so, how should
it be formed and organized to be a player in major CI initiatives, i.e.
TeraGrid?
- Big orgs (AIChE, SBE, ACS, AACC, etc.) have their own relevant sub
groups that should focus on CI
- Overarching orgs (CACHE, Council for Chemical Research, etc.)
- Perhaps CACHE should take on role of collecting CI requirements (from
other orgs), articulating needs, etc. and communicate with both subgroups
and with major CI initiatives (so acts as liaison)
What actions or changes are needed to proceed? What investments
are needed? (E.g. community software engineering, data standards, databases)
- Solicitations to address the above CI needs/opps
- Develop/define (and start?) CBET ‘full’ problems and the
CI enabling technologies needed, then show needs and overlap in needs
(within CBET, and across disciplines) to prove the needs.
What are the key CBET CI specifications?
- Some specs exist, but there are missing data specs, incomplete specs,
etc.
What are the key takeaways from this workshop?
- Remember that CI is about more than computing: data archival, curation,
collaboration, etc.
- Think big: about what you can do for ‘whole problems’ in
collaboration with a broader set of people and CI tools.
- Chemical engineering, computing, and systems research are seriously
underfunded. CI funding provides a way to address the grand challenges
in CBET community
- TeraGrid and other major CI projects need to do more outreach to this
community; this community needs to be more aggressive about learning about
existing CI projects
- TG present info on domain usage, success, etc.
- TG hosts forum for users to interact (by domain, technology, etc.)
- TG appoint a liaison for each FOS?
- TG post a NEW USER doc/list
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