Parallel Computing for Finite Element Structural Analysis on Workstation Cluster

Author

Fu, Chaojiang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Civil Eng., Fujian Univ. of Technol., Fuzhou

Volume

3

fYear

2008

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2008

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

294

Abstract

Parallel computing has become a promising trend in science and engineering computing. In this paper, parallel finite element method using domain decomposition technique is adapted to a distributed parallel environment of workstation cluster. The algorithm is presented for solving the conjugate gradient method on a parallel platform with element based domain decomposition. Using the developed code, a dam structural analysis problem is solved on workstation cluster and results are given. The parallel performance is analyzed.

Keywords

dams; finite element analysis; parallel processing; structural engineering computing; workstation clusters; dam structural analysis problem; distributed parallel environment; domain decomposition technique; element based domain decomposition; engineering computing; finite element structural analysis; parallel computing; parallel finite element method; parallel platform; workstation cluster; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Finite element methods; Parallel algorithms; Parallel processing; Power engineering computing; Software systems; Workstations; dam; finite element; parallel computing; workstation cluster;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Science and Software Engineering, 2008 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wuhan, Hubei

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3336-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSSE.2008.548

Filename

4722343