Distributed Computer-Aided Engineering

by Hojjat Adeli, Sanjay Kumar

Overview

Networking of personal computers and workstations is becoming commonplace in academic and industrial environments. A cluster of workstations provides engineers with a familiar, cost-effective environment for high performance computing. However, workstations often have no dedicated link and communicate slowly on a local area network (LAN), such as the Ethernet. Thus, to effectively harness the parallel processing or distributed computing capabilities of workstations, new algorithms need to be developed with a higher computation-to-communication ratio. Distributed Computer-Aided Engineering presents distributed algorithms for three fundamental areas: finite element analysis, design optimization, and visualization - providing a new direction in high performance structural engineering computing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000141085
Publisher:	CRC Press
Publication date:	09/23/2020
Series:	Computer Aided Engineering
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	9 MB

About the Author

Hojjat Adeli and Sanjay Kumar

Table of Contents

Introduction, Distributed Finite Element Analysis on a Network of Workstations, Implementation of Distributed Algorithms for Finite Element Analysis on a Network of Workstations, Distributed Genetic Algorithms for Design Optimization, Distributed Genetic Algorithms on a Cluster of Workstations, Concurrent Structural Optimization on Massively Parallel Computers, Concurrent Animation of Seismic Response of Large Structures in a Heterogeneous Computing Environment, New Directions and Final Thoughts, References

Editorial Reviews

Presents distributed algorithms for three fundamental areas of engineering: finite element analysis, design optimization, and visualization. Topics include: a mixed computational model for GA-based structural optimization of large structures on massively parallel distributed machines; distributed genetic algorithms for design optimization; and concurrent animation of seismic response of large structures in a heterogeneous computing environment. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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