The paper presents the overall architecture of the VADOR application framework. The purpose of the VADOR framework is to enable the seamless integration of commercial and in-house analysis applications in a heterogeneous, distributed computing environment, and to allow the deployment of automatic design optimization algorithms based on the framework. A multi-tiered client-server architecture has been devised which comprises a client GUl for interactive data definition and execution launching, separate data and execution servers, and autonomous remotely executable application wrappers.
['Bin Chen', 'Dao-Jun Liu', 'Babak Mahdavi', 'Qun Zhou', 'Djamel Bouhemhem', 'Amadou Ndiaye', 'François Guibault', 'Benoît Ozell', 'Dominique Pelletier', 'J.-Y. Trepanier']
A data-centric distributed framework for MDO management