Patent ID: 8793292

Claim:
A system for tracking and displaying computer files usable in computer simulations of an engineered process plant, comprising: a computer processor and computer readable medium accessible to the processor; a plurality of grid computers, each grid computer configured to receive instructions from said computer processor; control logic stored on the computer readable medium and executed by the processor, the processor when executing the control logic being operative to: implement a data object that tracks, stores, retrieves and displays all simulation-related files used or created during the computer simulations, said data object configured to receive data and instructions from one or more grid computers of said plurality of grid computers performing the computer simulations, in real time during the computer simulations, wherein each grid computer is configured to run at least one of a plurality of different modeling calculations; run the simulations of the process plant, compile a list of all simulation-related files used or created during the simulations by storing information identifying each simulation-related file in the data object; display the list; and automatically associate, in real-time during the simulations, each simulation-related file with a software program required to open and display the contents of each simulation-related file.