• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.287-298
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• 2001

Analysis of nonlinear behavior of prestressed concrete frame structures on PC is a time-consuming computing job if the problem size increase to a certain degree. Cluster system has emerged as one of promising computing environments due to its good extendibility, portability, and cost-effectiveness, comparing it with high-end work-stations or servers. In this paper, a parallel nonlinear analysis procedure of prestressed concrete frame structure is presented using cluster computing. Cluster system is configured with readily available pentium III class PCs under Win98 or Linux and fast ethernet. Parallel computing algorithms on element-wise processing parts including the calculation of stiffness matrix, element stresses and determination of material states, check of material failure and calculation of unbalanced loads are developed using MPL. Validity of the method is discussed through typical numerical examples. For the case of 4 node system, maximum speedup is 3.15 and 3.74 for Win98 and Linux, respectively. Important issues for the efficient use of cluster computing system based un PCs and ethernet are addressed.

• Proceedings of the KIEE Conference
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• 2007.10a
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• pp.241-242
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• 2007

병렬형 마일드 HEV(Hybrid Electric Vehicles)는 동력변환과정이 적어 구동계 전체의 효율이 직렬형에 비해 우수하고 다양한 구조를 가질 수 있으며 기존차량에 적용하기 쉽다는 장점이 있으나 구조 및 제어가 복잡하다. 따라서 병렬형 마일드 HEV의 성능을 예측하고 적절한 제어기를 설계하기 위해서는 구성요소의 종류 및 규격과 제어전략에 따른 HEV의 성능을 해석할 수 있는 체계적인 방법이 필요하다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 Simulink 소프트웨어를 이용한 모듈화 모델링에 의하여 병렬형 HEV의 구성요소를 모델링하고 이로부터 병렬형 HEV의 성능해석 및 운전제어전략의 특성을 비교할 수 있도록 한다.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.30 no.4
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• pp.351-361
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• 2017

Reinforced concrete(RC) structural walls are major lateral load-resisting structural member in building structures. Generally these RC structural walls are coupled with each other by the coupling beams and slabs, and therefore they behave as RC coupled structural wall system. In the design of these coupled structural wall systems, member forces are calculated using elastic structural analysis. These elastic analysis methodologies for the design of coupled structural wall system was not reasonable because it can not consider their ultimate behavior and assure economic feasibility. Performance based design and moment redistribution method to solve these problems is regarded as a reasonable alternative design method for RC coupled structural wall system. However, it is not verified under various design parameters. In this study, nonlinear analysis of RC coupled structural wall system was performed according to various design parameters such as reinforcement ratio, ultimate concrete strain and wall height. Based on analysis results, design considerations for coupled RC structural wall system was proposed.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.52-60
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• 2019

In this study, the performance and structure of a parallel ejector comprised of multiple single ejectors were confirmed through numerical analysis. The same design variables (mass suction ratio, compression ratio, and expansion ratio) relevant to the performance of a single ejector were considered in the design of the parallel ejector. Analytical results showed that there was no significant difference in the performance of either system related to the operating mass suction ratio; however, the systemsize was significantly reduced. In addition, it was confirmed that when ejectors of the same performance capacity are arranged in parallel, the combined mass suction ratio is lower than that of the single ejector, allowing a lower pressure to be realized. The results of the analysis indicated that the parallel ejector's performance is not significantly different from that of any single ejector, but confirmed that the parallel ejector can offer a configurationdependent advantage in size and operation.

• Computational Structural Engineering
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.5-9
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• 2001

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.40 no.11
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• pp.972-978
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• 2012

This paper discusses the parallelization of multifrontal solution method, widely used for finite element structural analyses, for a shared memory architecture. Multifrontal method is easier than other linear solution methods because the solution procedure implies that unknowns can be eliminated simultaneously. Two innovative ideas are introduced to achieve optimal solver performance on a shared memory computer. Those are pairing two frontal matrices and splitting the frontal matrix in order to reduce the temporal memory space required by independent computing tasks. Performance comparisons between original algorithm and proposed one prove that proposed method is more computationally efficient on current multicore machines.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.33 no.3
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• pp.171-178
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• 2020

In this study, we develop MPI-OpenMP hybrid parallelization for multibody peridynamic simulations. Peridynamics is suitable for analyzing complicated dynamic fractures and various discontinuities. However, compared with a conventional finite element method, nonlocal interactions in peridynamics cost more time and memory. In multibody peridynamic analysis, the costs increase due to the additional interactions that occur when computing the nonlocal contact and ghost interlayer models between adjacent bodies. The costs become excessive when further refinement and smaller time steps are required in cases of high-velocity impact fracturing or similar instances. Thus, high computational efficiency and performance can be achieved by parallelization and optimization of multibody peridynamic simulations. The analytical code is developed using an Intel Fortran MPI compiler and OpenMP in NURION of the KISTI HPC center and parallelized through MPI-OpenMP hybrid parallelization. Further parallelization is conducted by hybridizing with OpenMP threads in each MPI process. We also try to minimize communication operations by model-based decomposition of MPI processes. The numerical results for the impact fracturing of multiple bodies show that the computing performance improves significantly with MPI-OpenMP hybrid parallelization.

• Journal of the Computational Structural Engineering Institute of Korea
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.475-482
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• 2010

In this paper, an efficient two-level parallel domain decomposition algorithm is suggested to solve large-DOF structural problems. Each subdomain is composed of the coarse problem and local problem. In the coarse problem, displacements at coarse nodes are computed by the iterative method that does not need to assemble a stiffness matrix for the whole coarse problem. Then displacements at local nodes are computed by Multi-Frontal Sparse Solver. A parallel version of PCG(Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Method) is developed to solve the coarse problem iteratively, which minimizes the data communication amount between processors to increase the possible problem DOF size while maintaining the computational efficiency. The test results show that the suggested algorithm provides scalability on computing performance and an efficient approach to solve large-DOF structural problems.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.7-7
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• 2018

1차원 하수관로 해석 모형과 2차원 지표면 유출 해석 모형을 연계한 1D-2D 결합 도시침수 모델은 도시지역의 유출 현상과 침수 모의에 널리 이용되고 있다. 그러나 도시 지역의 복잡한 지형이 지표면 유출 흐름에 미치는 영향을 보다 자세히 파악하기 위해서는 보다 높은 해상도의 지형자료를 활용한 모의가 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 도시침수 해석을 위한 1D-2D 결합 하이브리드(Hybrid) 병렬화 코드(H12)를 개발하여 넓은 도시 유역에 대해서 고해상도 지형자료를 활용한 모의가 유역단위로 가능하도록 하였다. H12는 Open Multi-Processing(OpenMP)와 Message Passing Interface(MPI) 병렬 계산을 동시에 수행하여 매우 넓은 지역에 대해서도 도로의 형태를 확인 할 수 있는 수준의 고해상도 침수 해석 모의가 가능하다. 또한 도시지역의 복잡한 지형을 자세히 재현하고 계산의 효율을 높이기 위하여 격자세분화 기법이 적용되었다. H12의 적용성을 평가하기 위하여 미국 텍사스 알링턴 지역의 Johnson Creek 유역(${\sim}40km^2$)유역에 대한 시범 모의를 수행하였으며 도시유역의 지형을 표현하기 위하여 1m 해상도의 LiDAR자료를 사용하여 침수발생시 보다 자세한 유출수의 흐름을 해석할 수 있도록 하였다. 모의 결과 하이브리드 병렬 계산은 순차적 계산에 비하여 최고 79배 이상 빠른 계산속도 효율 향상을 보여주었으며, OpenMP나 MPI를 단독으로 사용하는 것에 비하여 더욱 효율적인 계산속도 효율 향상을 보여주었다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2014.11a
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• pp.41-42
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• 2014

대형 안테나 해석에서 큰 화두는 안테나 수치 계산 속도를 높이는 것이다. 현재 인기를 얻고 있는 병렬 처리 방식인 OpenMP, MPI, CUDA를 이용하여 안테나 수치 계산을 병렬화할 경우 발생하는 단점을 제시하고, 각 병렬 처리법의 장점도 소개한다.