STRUCTURAL SYSTEM SIMULATION USING GRID-COMPUTING FRAMEWORK

Data Iranata, Radityo Anggoro

Abstract


A multi-level modeling and simulation method of structural system using grid-computing framework is proposed in this paper. Two levels of parallel processing will be involved in this framework: (1) multiple locally distributed computing environments connected by the local network to form (2) a grid-based cluster-to-cluster distributed computing environment. To successfully perform the simulations, a large-scale structural system is decomposed into the simulations of a simplified global model and several detailed component models with various scales. These correlated multi-scale simulation tasks are distributed amongst clusters and connected together in a multi-level modeling and simulation method and then coordinated over the internet. This paper also presents the development of a grid-computing software framework that can support the proposed simulation approach. The architectural design of the program also allows the integration of several multi-scale models to be clients and servers under a single platform. Additionally, the comparison result between proposed method and assumed exact solution show that the proposed simulation method is appropriate to simulate the response of the structural systems.

Keywords


computer simulation; distributed computing; grid computing; internet; structural system

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12962/j20861206.v29i2.1729

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