Design and implementation of a windows-based parallel computing environment for large scale optimization

作     者：Wei, LY Wei, RY Tang, TB 

作者机构：Univ Queensland Adv Computat Modlling Ctr St Lucia Qld 4072 Australia Guangxi Univ Sch Comp & Informat Engn Nanning 530004 Peoples R China Jiao Tong Univ State Key Lab Vibrat Shock & Noise Shanghai 200030 Peoples R China 

出 版 物：《ADVANCES IN ENGINEERING SOFTWARE》 (工程软件进展)

年 卷 期：2004年第35卷第8-9期

页      面：577-584页

核心收录：

学科分类：08[工学] 0835[工学-软件工程] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：Guangxi Science Foundation, (9712010) National Natural Science Foundation of China, NSFC, (59665002) 

主　　题：optimization parallel and distributed computing problem solving environment object-oriented design windows 

摘      要：A parallel computing environment to support optimization of large-scale engineering systems is designed and implemented on Windows-based personal computer networks, using the master-worker model and the Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM). It is involved in decomposition of a large engineering system into a number of smaller subsystems optimized in parallel on worker nodes and coordination of subsystem optimization results on the master node. The environment consists of six functional modules, i.e. the master control, the optimization model generator, the optimizer, the data manager, the monitor, and the post processor. Object-oriented design of these modules is presented. The environment supports steps from the generation of optimization models to the solution and the visualization on networks of computers. User-friendly graphical interfaces make it easy to define the problem, and monitor and steer the optimization process. It has been verified by an example of a large space truss optimization. (C) 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.