Essentially, the OpenMI standard is a software component interface definition for the computational core (the engine) of the computational models in the water domain. Model components that comply with this standard can, without any programming, be configured to exchange data during computation (at run-time). This means that combined systems can be created, based on OpenMI-compliant models from different providers, thus enabling the modeller to use those models that are best suited to a particular project. The standard supports two-way links where the involved models mutually depend on calculation results from each other. Linked models may run asynchronously with respect to timesteps, and data represented on different geometries (grids) can be exchanged seamlessly.
The OpenMI standard is defined by a set of software interfaces that a compliant model or component must implement. These interfaces are available both in C# and Java.
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Latest News
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18 November 2008 NEW
The OpenMI Association's chairman, Roger Moore will be speaking on, "The OpenMI - its transformation from research output to global integrated modelling community standard", at the Fall AGU meeting, San Francisco, USA. This talk will be presented in a session on integrated modelling jointly presented with CUAHSI.
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14 November 2008 NEW
The OpenMI Association has been invited to contribute to the US EPA's Office of Environmental Information Annual Symposium, 10th-12th December 2008, being held at Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
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29 October 2008
The OpenMI Association's chairman, Roger Moore has been invited to give an introduction to the OpenMI on 6th November 2008 at the Thirteenth Session of the Commission for Hydrology, World Meteorological Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland.
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27 October 2008
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1 August 2008
OpenMI-Life Scheldt Workshop on 25th November 2008 at Antwerp, Belgium
Places still available at the OpenMI-Life Scheldt workshop
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