GRID technology for structural analysis

Advances in Engineering Software

Volumn 38, Issue 11-12, 2007, Pages 738-749

  Alonso, J M ^a   de Alfonso, C ^a   Garcia G ^a   Hernandez V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

3D structural analysis of buildings; Globus Toolkit; Grid Computing; High Performance Computing techniques; Numerical libraries; Parallel direct and iterative solvers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; GRID COMPUTING; ITERATIVE METHODS; LINEAR SYSTEMS; NUMERICAL METHODS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

3D STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; GLOBUS TOOLKIT; HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING TECHNIQUES; ITERATIVE SOLVERS; NUMERICAL LIBRARIES; PARALLEL DIRECT;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34447621015     PISSN: 09659978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.advengsoft.2006.08.029     Document Type: Article

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