Why High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications Matters

Modelling and Simulation (M&S) offer adequate abstractions to manage the complexity of analysing big data in scientific and engineering domains. Unfortunately, big data problems are often not easily amenable to efficient and effective use of High Performance Computing (HPC) facilities and technologies. Furthermore, M&S communities typically lack the detailed expertise required to exploit the full potential of HPC solutions while HPC specialists may not be fully aware of specific modelling and simulation requirements and applications. The COST Action IC1406 High-Performance Modelling and Simulation for Big Data Applications has created a strategic framework to foster interaction between M&S experts from various application domains on the one hand and HPC experts on the other hand to develop effective solutions for big data applications. One of the tangible outcomes of the COST Action is a collection of case studies from various computing domains. Each case study brought together both HPC and M&S experts, giving witness of the effective cross-pollination facilitated by the COST Action. In this introductory article we argue why joining forces between M&S and HPC communities is both timely in the big data era and crucial for success in many application domains. Moreover, we provide an overview on the state of the art in the various research areas concerned

An Expert System Based on Parametric Net to Support Motor Pump Multi-Failure Diagnostic

Abstract Early failure detection in motor pumps is an important issue in prediction maintenance. An efficient condition-monitoring scheme is capable of providing warning and predicting the faults at early stages. Usually, this task is executed by humans. The logical progression of the condition-monitoring technologies is the automation of the diagnostic process. To automate the diagnostic process, intelligent diagnostic systems are used. Many researchers have explored artificial intelligence techniques to diagnose failures in general. However, all papers found in literature are related to a specific problem that can appear in many different machines. In real applications, when the expert analyzes a machine, not only one problem appears, but more than one problem may appear together. So, it is necessary to propose new methods to assist diagnosis looking for a set of occurring fails. For some failures, there are not sufficient instances that can ensure good classifiers induced by available machine learning algorithms. In this work, we propose a method to assist fault diagnoses in motor pumps, based on vibration signal analysis, using expert systems. To attend the problems related to motor pump analyses, we propose a parametric net model for multi-label problems. We also show a case study in this work, showing the applicability of our proposed method