ParaDyn Implementation in the US Navy's DYSMAS Simulation System: FY08 Progress Report

Ferencz, R M ; DeGroot, A J ; Lin, J I ; Zywicz, E ; Durrenberger, J K ; Sherwood, R J ; Corey, I R

关键词: ACCURACY;    CAPACITY;    COMPUTERS;    EFFICIENCY;    ENGINEERS;    ENGINES;    FLUID-STRUCTURE INTERACTIONS;    IMPLEMENTATION;    PARALLEL PROCESSING;    PERSONNEL;    PROGRESS REPORT;    SIMULATION;    UNDERWATER EXPLOSIONS;    VALIDATION;    VERIFICATION;    WARFARE;   

DOI  :  10.2172/945830
RP-ID  :  LLNL-TR-405901
PID  :  OSTI ID: 945830
Others  :  TRN: US200904%%167

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来源: SciTech Connect

【 摘 要 】

The goal of this project is to increase the computational efficiency and capacity of the Navy's DYSMAS simulation system for full ship shock response to underwater explosion. Specifically, this project initiates migration to a parallel processing capability for the structural portion of the overall fluid-structure interaction model. The capstone objective for the first phase is to demonstrate operation of the DYSMAS simulation engine with a production model on a Naval Surface Warfare Center (IHD) parallel platform using the ParaDyn code for parallel processing of the structural dynamics. This year saw a successful launch to integrate ParaDyn, the high-parallel structural dynamics code from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), into the DYSMAS system for simulating the response of ship structures to underwater explosion (UNDEX). The current LLNL version of DYNA3D, representing ten years of general development beyond the source branch used to initiate DYNA-N customization for DYSMAS, was first connected to the GEMINI flow code through DYSMAS Standard Coupler Interface (SCI). This permitted an early 'sanity check' by Naval Surface Warfare Center, Indian Head Division (NSWC-IHD) personnel that equivalent results were generated for their standard UNDEX test problems, thus ensuring the Verification & Validation pedigree they have developed remains intact. The ParaDyn code was then joined to the SCI in a manner requiring no changes to GEMINI. Three NSWC-IHD engineers were twice hosted at LLNL to become familiar with LLNL computer systems, the execution of the prototype software system, and to begin assessment of its accuracy and performance. Scaling data for the flow solver GEMINI was attained up to a one billion cell, 1000 processor run. The NSWC-IHD engineers were granted privileges to continue their evaluations through remote connections to LLNL's Open Computing Facility. Finally, the prototype changes were integrated into the mainline ParaDyn source repository and issued as part of its Version 8.1 beta release. This source was transmitted to NSWC-IHD and in collaboration with LLNL personnel the entire ParaDyn software suite successfully installed and demonstrated on its new SGI Altix machine. The ability of even minor numbers of processors for the structural dynamics to impact overall time-to-solution for DYSMAS has been demonstrated. Assessments of combined parallel efficiencies are beginning to highlight areas for further DYSMAS optimizations.