Application of Grid Computing for Numerical Simulation of Structural Systems

• Main Authors: Yu-Chih Lin, 林禹志
• Other Authors: Hung-Ming Chen
• Format: Others
• Language: en_US
• Published: 2011
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/29r6r6

博士 === 國立臺灣科技大學 === 營建工程系 === 99 === This study has presented a framework for a Grid-based structural simulation by integrating a Grid-based cluster-to-cluster distributed computing environment and a multi-level hierarchical method of modeling and simulation. The purpose of this study is to utilize the idle and available computational resources which are geographically distributed on the Internet for providing the computing power needed for processing structural simulations. Two levels of parallel processing are involved in this framework: multiple local distributed computing environments connected by the Internet to form a Grid-based cluster-to-cluster distributed computing environment. To utilize such a computing environment for a realistic simulation, the simulation task of a structural system has been separated into a simulation of a simplified global model in association with several detailed component models using various scales. These related multi-scale simulation tasks are distributed amongst clusters and connected to form a multi-level hierarchy. The Grid computing technology is used to coordinate geographically distributed simulation tasks. This study also presents the development of a software framework that can support the multi-level hierarchical simulation approach, in a Grid-based cluster-to-cluster distributed computing environment. The architectural design of the program also allows the integration of several multi-scale models to be clients and servers under a single platform. Such integration can combine geographically distributed computing resources to produce realistic simulations of structural systems.