A data-centric distributed framework for MDO management

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.