The paper explores two kinds of computing environments that can deliver this kind of functionality: volunteer computing that uses Internet-connected computers, volunteered by their owners, as a source of computing power and storage, and high-throughput computing (HTC) environment that reuses computing infrastructure available within different organizations. The paper introduces general concepts of selected computing environments. The end-user scenarios focus on the use of parametric studies in earthquake engineering.
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In the paper a practical methodology for determination of the set of structural models, which need to be defined in order to simulate the influence of epistemic uncertainty on seismic response parameters, is presented. The method is based on the Latin Hypercube Sampling, and makes it possible to take into consideration different sources of epistemic uncertainty, such as the mechanical characteristics of the materials, gravity loads and the corresponding masses, viscous damping, and other modelling uncertainties such as effective slab widths and ultimate rotations.
COBISS.SI-ID: 4367969