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In this paper we describe the implementation of a service oriented environment that enables to couple a parallel application, which performs the 3D linear dynamic structural analysis of high-rise buildings, to a Grid Computing infrastructure. The Grid service, developed under Globus Toolkit 4, exposes the dynamic simulation as a service to the structural scientific community. It employs the GMarte middleware, a metascheduler that enables to perform the computationally intensive simulations on the distributed resources of a Grid-based infrastructure.
Topics: Parallel and Distributed Computing, Cluster and Grid Computing, Large Scale Simulations in All Areas of Engineering and Science.
The authors wish to thank the financial support received from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology to develop the GRID-IT project (TIC2003-01318) and the Conselleria de Empresa, Universidad y Ciencia - Generalitat Valenciana for the GRID4BUILD project (GV04B-424). We wish also to thank Anshul Gupta for providing us with a trial license of WSMP library for 16 CPUs.
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Alonso, J.M., Hernández, V., López, R., Moltó, G. (2007). A Service Oriented System for on Demand Dynamic Structural Analysis over Computational Grids. In: Daydé, M., Palma, J.M.L.M., Coutinho, Á.L.G.A., Pacitti, E., Lopes, J.C. (eds) High Performance Computing for Computational Science - VECPAR 2006. VECPAR 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4395. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71351-7_2
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