An Integration of Structural Analysis Software running on Heterogeneous Computing Environment with Distributed Object Technologies

Abstract

A software infrastructure was developed with distributed object technologies that enable us to connect heterogeneous computing environments. The software infrastructure, which was implemented with CORBA, Java, C++ and XML, establishes seamless connection between structural analysis components. The components include model generator, matrix calculation solver and visualization tool which are often running on the various computing hardware such as parallel computer, graphics workstation and so on. Software wrappers are integrated with the components in order to provide multi-protcol networking and asynchronous job control. A multi-faced problem solver for structural design and an eigenvalue analysis system for rotating shaft were developed onto the infrastructure to evaluate its applicability.