The Raisins project was divided into four separate activities; inventory and evaluation of existing resources at ViPForge, review of the report from the early ViP project “Industrial Needs”, workshops with each of the industrial partners, and finally an activity at HiQ to sketch an alternative software approach. The results could be summarized to a conclusion where two alternative development paths for future simulation software in the ViP community are possible to take. The first path is to continue with the on-going incremental approach, where we have to accept the existing structure of the simulator platform but add new and improve existing resources. The second, alternative path, is to start from the beginning based on the existing knowledge and the industrial requirements of today. The new start will probably also include re-use of existing platform modules. This second alternative may be necessary to choose if the ambition is to have a common national simulator platform to be shared by all ViP partners and also internally used by each partner. It is the authors’ opinion that obtaining this goal is crucial for the future existence of ViP. (Author/publisher)
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