October 2006
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Release of New Tools Improves Streamlining
On October 3, Sandia’s DART (Design Through Analysis Realization Team) group released an integrated suite of tools to benefit their customers within the analysis and nuclear weapons groups. This release, driven by past ASC milestones, provides analysts and designers a carefully integrated suite of tools that use a metadata layer to provide flexibility and agility. The tools are provided within a project management framework that also provides artifact tracking, pedigree, and archiving. The tools within the suite include modeling, geometric editing, decomposition, meshing, model management, material property management, workflow management, job submission, and post-processing.
DART’s goal is to streamline the modeling and simulation, provide better traceability and thus to improve the responsiveness and quality of the analyses. Many of the tools have been released independently and continue to have significant impact, both at SNL and throughout the weapon complex. This integrated release now allows teams of users to coordinate their analysis efforts and provides a powerful mechanism for data to be passed effectively between these tools. Such data include assembly structures, material identifiers and properties, and Quality Assurance records. This unlimited release is available on the classified and unclassified systems.
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