Application of SynfiniWay Grid Platform for iterative LS-DYNA studies

Whether end-users need to access local or remote systems, to use a batch system or to run jobs interactively, they will always raise the same questions: “Which system can I run my job on?” and “How do I get data to the machine where my job will execute?” Users should only need to know what applications they want to run and where the inputs for these applications are located. To answer these needs, Fujitsu markets a middleware product called SynfiniWay which hides all issues related to CPU location, and allows execution of complex applications via workflows. The conclusion of this paper is that the SynfiniWay middleware can solve LS- DYNA iterative problems: the search for an optimal mesh size or successive LS- DYNA calculations with modified initial conditions. SynfiniWay provides an infrastructure to execute these studies automatically and transparently on remote computers (grid computing).