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Porting Thermomechanical Applications to Grid Environment

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NuscaS is an object-oriented package designed at Czestochowa University of Technology to investigate thermomechanical phenomena using FEM modeling. Its functionality includes also implementation on clusters. This paper presents our experience in adaptation of the NuscaS system to the CLUSTERIX environment, which is a national grid infrastructure with 12 local Linux PC-clusters connected by the Polish Optical Network PIONIER. Using the MPICH-G2 middleware, the proposed solution allows for running tasks across several local clusters as meta-applications. The performance results of numerical experiments with FEM modeling of casting solidification confirm that CLUSTERIX can be an efficient platform for running numerical meta-applications. However, harnessing its computing power needs to take into account the hierarchical architecture of the infrastructure.

This work has been supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Information Society Technologies under grant 6T11 2003C/06098 “CLUSTERIX – National Cluster of Linux Systems”.

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  1. Institute of Computer & Information Sciences, Czestochowa University of Technology, Dabrowskiego 73, 42-200, Czestochowa, Poland

    Tomasz Olas & Roman Wyrzykowski

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  1. Institute of Computational and Information Sciences, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

    Roman Wyrzykowski

  2. Computer Science Department,, University of Tennessee, 37996-3450, Knoxville, TN, USA

    Jack Dongarra

  3. Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland

    Norbert Meyer

  4. Informatics & Mathematical Modeling, Technical University of Denmark, 2800, Lyngby, DK, Denmark

    Jerzy Waśniewski

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Olas, T., Wyrzykowski, R. (2006). Porting Thermomechanical Applications to Grid Environment. In: Wyrzykowski, R., Dongarra, J., Meyer, N., Waśniewski, J. (eds) Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics. PPAM 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3911. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11752578_44

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