Implementation of ADVENTURE_Opt in the ITBL environment using ITBL client API

Miyamura, Tomoshi*; Arai, Kentaro*; Mimura, Yasunari*; Yoshimura, Shinobu*; Suzuki, Yoshio   

ADVENTURE_Opt is one of the software modules in the ADVENTURE System, which is an open source software system for computational mechanics. The system is designed for conducting large-scale analysis and design. ADVENTURE_Opt can conduct optimization of artifacts using an optimization algorithm such as the Real coded GA, and the finite element analyses are conducted for evaluating an objective function. In this paper, the ADVENTURE_Opt is modified for using the ITBL environment, which is a grid-environment developed in the national project in Japan. In the computation using the ADVENTURE_Opt, conducting the finite element analyses is the most time consuming. In the present implementation, this computation is conducted in the ITBL environment and the other parts are conducted on a personal computer. The ITBL client API library is used for implementing the system.