FRAMES
Description
FRAMES is a software package for developing integrated environmental modeling applications. It is a collection of components to manage inter-model communications, model executions, and related data retrieval and analysis tools. FRAMES allows models placed within its domain to be linked to each other. Links establish data flow within models. Data exchange between models is accomplished through the use of dictionaries (metadata). Adding a model to a FRAMES application involves developing FRAMES compatible dictionaries for its input and output data. Unit conversions during data exchange between linked models are handled automatically by FRAMES. FRAMES can produce and consume data from files and relational databases. FRAMES includes several tools for data analysis and viewing. Data analysis tools allows the user to perfrom sensitivity and uncertainity analysis. Another set of tools allows the user to execute applications on distributed network of computers (clusters).
Why Use FRAMES?
FRAMES: A plug-and-play modeling platform
Today’s complex problems, from environmental cleanup to international finances, require fast, flexible analytical tools that can handle new computer models, databases, and simulations in addition to products built 20 years ago. Enter FRAMES, Version 2, built by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. FRAMES, short for Framework for Risk Analysis Multimedia Environmental Systems, is a flexible systems-modeling software platform that capitalizes on the analyst’s existing models, simulations, and databases.
Quickly Manage Data
FRAMES makes the job of creating and running simulations easier by allowing analysts to “plug” in their software tools and modules, such as models, simulations, and databases, and then “play,” that is, perform analysis. FRAMES does not limit the analyst to a small set of compatible data products, like other analysis platforms. FRAMES allows users to dynamically introduce software modules. Analysts can connect their information through a simple drag-and-drop interface. This reduces the time of adding and connecting modules from weeks and months to hours or days. It also avoids the cost and time required to have the data hardwired together by computer programmers. The modules can be commercial or customized products, from off-the-shelf financial modeling systems to site-specific environmental cleanup databases. This allows analysts to
- Add or remove modules quickly
- Connect modules
- Manipulate module attributes
- Run simulations
- Conduct sensitivity and uncertainty analysis.
FRAMES Applications
Multimedia, Multi-pathway, and Multi-receptor Exposure and Risk Assessment
Downloads
FRAMES, Earth Domain, iemWatersheds Domain and related domains are available here for download
