Abstract
The primary mission of the EU-funded OPERA project is the training of operators in the area of chemical industry by means of simulation applications that run in a cost-effective standard LAN environment. As a second goal, OPERA also aims at achieving great flexibility to ease changes in the released simulator. To achieve its primary goal, OPERA had to solve the problem of real-time combined with the requirement for high computing. To achieve its secondary goal, OPERA noticeably had 1) to provide a way to integrate hybrid simulation models, 2) to be highly scalable and configurable (being able to run from a single computer to multi-processors clusters). As a matter of fact, OPERA results appear to be valuable in many areas, far beyond the initial requirements in the domain of distributed simulation.
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Abbreviations
- ADC:
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OPERA Atomic DiSOM Component
- CC:
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OPERA Central Conductor
- COTS:
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Commercial Off The Shelf
- DCS:
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Distributed Control System
- DiSOM:
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OPERA Distributed Simulation Object Model
- HLA:
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High-Level Architecture
- HPCS/RT:
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OPERA High Performance Computing Simulations in Real Time
- LC:
-
OPERA Local Conductor
- OPERA:
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OPERAtors training distributed real-time simulations
- PSE:
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Proprietary Simulation Environments
- UML:
-
Unified Modelling Language—OMG standard
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US Department of Defense, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office: “Department of Defense High-Level Architecture Interface Specification”, http://www.dmso.mil/projects/hla
OPERA Projekte http://tes.iitb.fhg.de/Projekte/opera.html
RTSORAC project—http://www.cs.uri.edu
TRDF—LeLann
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Lebas, FX., Usländer, T. (1999). OPERA: An HPCN architecture for distributed component-based real-time simulations. In: Sloot, P., Bubak, M., Hoekstra, A., Hertzberger, B. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1593. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0100566
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