The Application of Fault-Tolerance to Grid Computing in Finite Element Analysis

Abstract

Grid computing is an innovative technology that obtains computing power by using the computer resource through the network. However, grid computing has the possibility to be suered some problems which are either hardware or network failure. The parallel computation of finite element analysis has already been achieved by grid computing. In this paper, some techniques on fault tolerance in grid computing was developed on the parallel finite element analysis. Moreover, the accuracy of this method and the influence for the entire computation time was discussed. From the numerical results, it was found that the number of computing nodes can be modified in the middle of the calculation, and that this technique is ecient for the fault-tolerance to grid computing.