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A Study on a large-scale materials simulation using a PC networked cluster

PC Network Cluster를 사용한 대규모 재료 시뮬레이션에 관한 연구

  • 최덕기 (단국대학교 기계공학과) ;
  • 류한규 (단국대학교 기계공학과 대학원)
  • Published : 2002.08.01
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Abstract

For molecular dynamics requires high-performance computers or supercomputers to handle huge amount of computation, it is not until recent days that the application of molecular dynamics to materials fracture simulations draw some attention from many researchers. With the recent advent of high-performance computers, computation intensive methods become more tractable than ever. However, carrying out materials simulation on high-performance computers costs too much in general. In this study, a PC cluster consisting of multiple commodity PCs is established and computer simulations of materials with cracks are carried out on it via molecular dynamics technique. The effect of the number of nodes, speedup factors, and communication time between nodes are measured to verify the performance of the PC cluster. Upon using the PC cluster, materials fracture simulations with more than 50,000 molecules are carried out successfully.

분자 동역학 기법을 사용한 재료 파괴 시뮬레이션은 계산량의 방대함으로 인하여 극히 최근까지 활발한 연구가 진행되지 못하였으나 최근 컴퓨터의 성능향상으로 인하여 새로운 연구분야로 떠오르고 있다. 분자 동역학은 그 특성상 계산 집약적인 환경을 요구함으로 대규모의 연산을 위해서는 슈퍼컴퓨터나 클러스터(cluster)의 사용이 필수적이나 고가의 장비와 사용료로 인하여 많은 제한을 받아왔다. 본 연구에서는 PC를 사용하여 클러스터를 제작하고, 균열이 있는 시편을 사용하여 파괴현상에 대한 분자 수준의 거동을 시뮬레이션 하였으며, 클러스터의 노드(node) 수, 효율, 분자 수, 노드간의 통신시간 등의 상호관계를 파악하여 최적의 성능을 가진 클러스터를 구성하는 데 필요한 요소들을 분석하였다. 제작된 PC 클러스터를 사용하여 약 50,000개의 분자를 사용한 재료 파괴 시뮬레이션을 수행하였다.

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