L23- Computational Issues Computer technologies have been changing the environment of engineering design -enabling MDO Hardware: Advances in processor speed, memory and storage Software: Powerful disciplinary analysis and simulation programs(e.g Nastran, Fluent.. This also creates new difficulties: Most activities involve stand-alone programs and many engineers spend 50-80% of their time organizing data and moving it back-and-forth between applications Data must be shared between disciplines more easily Computational requirements increaseL23 - Computational Issues • Computer technologies have been changing the environment of engineering design - enabling MDO • Hardware: Advances in processor speed, memory and storage • Software: Powerful disciplinary analysis and simulation programs (e.g. Nastran, Fluent …) • This also creates new difficulties: Most activities involve stand-alone programs and many engineers spend 50-80% of their time organizing data and moving it back-and-forth between applications Data must be shared between disciplines more easily Computational requirements increase