Strength Check of Aircraft Parts Based on Multi-GPU Clusters for Fast Calculation of Sparse Linear Equations

Abstract

In order to improve the cost-effectiveness ratio, the next-generation vehicle needs to meet the requirements of reuse, while adopting a lighter structural weight, so it is necessary to realize the strength calculation and condition monitoring of key components in the digital twin. Most of the current monitoring methods are based on the characteristics of various data acquisition systems, but they need the support of a large number of flight data. The disadvantages of the above strategy can be avoided by reducing the structure of aircraft components to a finite element model and quickly checking the key components in the health management system. In order to solve the problem of fast calculation of the finite element model of the key components of the aircraft, a parallel algorithm and framework of large-scale sparse matrix preprocessing conjugate gradient method based on CUDA(Compute Unified Device Architecture) technology is proposed in the multi GPU(Graphics Processing Unit) workstation cluster environment. Once the sparse matrix is too large to be processed in a single workstation, this paper discusses how to realize the optimized data segmentation in the distributed multi-GPU computing environment. For the problem of iterative solution of matrix preprocessing, two preprocessing strategies of matrix bandwidth reduction parallelization and incomplete Cholesky decomposition are proposed, and asynchronous task concurrency and load balancing strategies are designed on the architecture. The calculation of some examples in the standard sparse matrix database shows that the algorithm and architecture proposed in this paper have the ability to solve large-scale sparse matrix quickly and efficiently, and can complete the fast strength verification of vehicle components.