[Bldg-sim] White Box Technologies announces the establishment of a Center for Open Source Building Simulations

Chris Jones cj at cr-jay.ca
Mon Jan 25 08:04:14 PST 2010


There were a number of enhancements, paid for by public entities, 
implemented in Hirsh's version of DOE2.1e - Dual Fan Dual Duct 
system, pumping enhancements, etc.  Hirsh was supposed to implement 
those enhancements in the LBL version...

At 03:52 PM 1/21/2010, Joe Huang wrote:
>Dear Friends and Colleagues,
>
>White Box Technologies wishes to announce its intention to establish 
>a non-profit Center for Open Source Building Energy Simulations 
>(COSBES). I admit the title may sound a bit on the grandiose side, 
>but it capsulizes my thinking on what may help our little world of 
>building energy simulations - a non-profit non-commercial center on 
>simulation programs and resources that's in the public domain.
>
>My initial goals are very modest, but my long-range vision is for 
>the Center to be capable of significant software development and 
>support, but always open source. My first steps are simply to 
>maintain an open-source version of DOE-2.1E. DOE-2.1E has been 
>effectively abandoned by LBNL and DOE for close to a decade. I have 
>assurances from LBNL that it's only a matter of paperwork for them 
>to make the program open source, and have communicated to them my 
>intentions without receiving any objections.
>
>So what would this support consist of, besides making the program 
>and source code freely available? That would of course depend on the 
>public's (your) interest and need, which is one reason for this 
>announcement! But for starters, I have a backlog of completed work 
>that have never been incorporated into the public release version of 
>DOE-2.1E, such as two-dimensional and combined response factors for 
>composite walls, a decent foundation model, and an improved weather 
>file format.  In addition, I'm currently working on contract for 
>ORNL to incorporate AtticSim into 2.1E. Lastly, I have a license 
>from LBNL to continue working on my last major work there - a 
>partially-completed DOE-2 to EnergyPlus translator (doe2ep) that, 
>funding pending, can be updated to the current EnergyPlus release. 
>Also in the works and soon to be launched are (1)  VisualEPlus, a 
>graphical user interface for EnergyPlus done by colleagues in China, 
>and (2) actual-year weather data service accessing NCDC's massive 
>International Surface Hourly (ISH) data base.
>
>I had originally thought of calling a meeting at ASHRAE to make this 
>announcement, but then realized that finding a time to meet at 
>ASHRAE is an impossibility. However, I would be happy to entertain 
>any questions and comments while at the conference, where I'll 
>typically be found in TC 4.7 and 4.2 meetings. For course, I'm also 
>open to questions and comments posted on BLDG-SIM, although my 
>responses will be somewhat delayed.
>--
>
>Joe Huang
>White Box Technologies, Inc.
>346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 108D
>Moraga CA 94556
>(o) +925 388 0265
>(c) +510 928 2683
>yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
>www.whiteboxtechnologies.com
>
>
>
>
>--
>Joe Huang
>White Box Technologies, Inc.
>346 Rheem Blvd. Suite 108D
>Moraga CA 94556
>(o) +925 388 0265
>(c) +510 928 2683
>yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
>www.whiteboxtechnologies.com
>
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