Abstract

Earthquake engineers have traditionally investigated the behavior of structures with either computational simulations or physical experiments. Recently, a new hybrid approach has been proposed that allows tests to be decomposed into independent substructures that can be located at different test facilities, tested separately, and integrated via a computational simulation. We describe a grid-based architecture for performing such novel distributed hybrid computational/physical experiments. We discuss the requirements that underlie this extremely challenging application of grid technologies, describe our architecture and implementation, and discuss our experiences with the application of this architecture within an unprecedented earthquake engineering test that coupled large-scale physical experiments in Illinois and Colorado with a computational simulation. Our results point to the remarkable impacts that grid …

Date

June 4, 2004

Authors

Laura Pearlman, Carl Kesselman, Sridhar Gullapalli, BF Spencer, Joe Futrelle, Kathleen Ricker, Ian Foster, Paul Hubbard, Charles Severance

Conference

Proceedings. 13th IEEE International Symposium on High performance Distributed Computing, 2004.

Pages

14-23

Publisher

IEEE