A Cloud System Implementation for the Analysis of Civil Engineering Structures

摘要

This paper describes the development of a high throughput and reliable Cloud Service to perform on-demand structural analysis over the Windows Azure-based Cloud infrastructure provided by the EC VENUS-C project. All the simulations in the Cloud are governed by Architrave®, an advanced software environment for the design and analysis of buildings and civil engineering structures. The migration to the Cloud has been implemented by means of the Generic Worker component, a web-role implementation for Windows Azure that manages the execution of the remote tasks. The CDMI standard has been used for uploading and downloading data. A GUI Client has also been implemented, in charge of defining and managing the remote simulations, transferring the data and informing the user about the status of the simulations. A real large building has been chosen as a case study to show the advantages of the cost-effective Cloud system with respect to the sequential approach.