A Research of Critical Technology of Vibration Measurement Grid

• Published in: Procedia engineering 2011, Vol.15, p.2917-2921
• Main Authors: Gao, Ying, Liu, Guanyao, Huang, Jiancong, Zhang, Haihua, Qu, Guangjian, Zhu, Zhenhai
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: grid computing; remote calibration; Vibration measurement
• ISSN: 1877-7058; 1877-7058
• DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.08.549

At present, blasting simulation is an important task in the blasting in China. To improve the efficiency of blasting operation and to help people to use more complicated model for achieving a higher rate of blasting success, the processing of massive data generated by blasting simulation needs a high performance computing platform to provide super computing power. As the accuracy of vibration measurement grows, the scale of measurement result data is larger than ever before. And it's getting more and more difficult to process the data using traditional centralized computation model. This paper has proposed a vibration measurement grid using low cost nodes distributed around the country, providing infinite flexible computing power, improving computing efficiency and reducing the cost. The whole platform has three layers of nodes, containing a country-level control node, some province-level control nodes, and plenty of computing nodes. Moreover, there is a data center providing all the service programs and vibration measurement data. Comparing to the traditional super computers, raising the computing capabilities by adding more computing nodes is extremely easy, which provides the platform infinite flexibility. All the computing nodes and the control nodes could be ordinary PCs. It means a high performance computing platform can be built up using low cost computers, which can sharply reduce the cost. Some experiments have also been worked out to test the performance of the platform.