Milestones and Deliverables

In this section, we describe the milestones and deliverables for the proposed work. We specify these only for the Applications Development and Software Development components of the project. We believe that the Algorithm Development component of the project is more of an exploratory nature, so that a milestone schedule of the sort given here is not appropriate. We also note that the milestones given here for the second 18 months of the project are more diffuse than those for the first 18 months. The reason for this is connected to the management structure of the project. We want to obtain input from our applications stakeholders in order to assign priorities to various activities at that stage of the project.

Milestones are given assuming July 1, 2001 start date.

Jan 2002

Software Development Milestones

Installation of project management infrastructure. Selection and installation of project management software, website download and registration system. Forums and mailing lists running.
C-binding Interoperability design document for stakeholder, ISIC collaborator review.
Initial implementation of Layer 2,3 Tools for EB methods: interlevel operators, AMR Elliptic and Hyperbolic drivers.
Initial implementation of interface to Cart3D grid generator.
Complete initial implementation of Layer 1 and Layer 2 Particle / Mesh tools: PMBox, remap, bin sorting, parallel support, loadbalancing, I/O, Particle / Mesh --> grid field, grid field --> Particle / Mesh operators.

Applications Development Milestones

Initial implementation of AMR-Particle / Mesh for Vlasov-Poisson equations completed.
Initial implementation of ideal MHD AMR code for tokomak completed.
2D/3D laminar DNS combustion code prototype. Design documents, user's guide and initial implementation of pre/post processing tools.

July 2002

Software Development Milestones

Complete implementation of C-binding interoperability prototype.
Complete VoF-AMR - Particle / Mesh common data model proposal, binary-portable common VoF-AMR- Particle / Mesh data file specification proposal, prioritized list of package adapters for implementation.
Initial implementation of Layer 4 benchmark for EB framework: EB-AMR compressible Navier-Stokes code.
Implement public domain cut cell (EB) grid generation package.
Implement Layer 4 benchmark for particle / mesh framework testing: incompressible Navier-Stokes with immersed boundary coupling to particles.
Augment AMRPoisson system with 4th order Mehrstellan and nodal point schemes.

Applications Development Milestones

Performance and capability tuning of AMR MHD code for tokomak.
Performance and capability tuning for AMR-PIC code for Vlasov-Poisson. Release of AMR-PIC code.
Initial release of laminar DNS combustion package.

Jan 2003

Software Development Milestones

Implement prototype binary-portable common VoF-AMR- Particle / Mesh data I/O routines with C bindings, VoF-AMR- Particle / Mesh common data model and interlanguage routines
Interoperability benchmark: interoperability with solver, performance tools from collaborating ISIC efforts.
Redesign and tuning of EB framework, based on Layer 4 benchmark performance evaluation. Release of EB framework.
Redesign and tuning of particle / mesh framework, based on Layer 4 benchmark performance evaluations. Release particle / mesh framework.

Applications Development Milestones

Initial implementation of follow-on accelerator application.
Complete addition of non-ideal effects, Hall term to MHD AMR code. Release of MHD AMR code for tokomaks.
Complete tuning and linear solver robustification for DNS combustion package.

July 2003

Software Development Milestones

Moving boundary software design. Prototype implementation of Layer 1, 2 and 3 tools for moving boundaries and interfaces.
Modifications to cut cell grid generation to support moving boundaries.
Unified particle / mesh + EB design.

Applications Development Milestones

Performance and capability tuning of follow-on accelerator application. Release of follow-on accelerator application.
Complete design, initial implementation of Particle / Mesh+AMR MHD code prototype.
Initial implementation of follow-on combustion application.

Jan 2004

Software Development Milestones

Prototype implementations of Layer 4 moving boundary benchmarks: moving boundary AMR allspeed code, moving interface AMR allspeed code.
particle / mesh + EB geometry benchmark code: MLC particles with EB incompressible AMR code.

Applications Development Milestones

Performance and capability tuning of Particle / Mesh+AMR MHD application. Release of Particle / Mesh+AMR MHD application.
Performance and capability tuning of follow-on combustion application. Release of follow-on combustion application.

July 2004

Software Development Milestones

Redesign and tuning of moving boundary VoF framework, based on Layer 4 benchmark performance evaluations. Release moving boundary / moving interface framework.
Release particle / mesh + EB tools.