ABSTRACT
Concurrent processing on multiprocessor supercomputers (Adeli, 1992a & b) provides an opportunity to obtain optimization of large structures with thousands of members subjected to the highly nonlinear constraints of the actual design codes such as the American Institute of Steel Construction (AISC) Allowable Stress Design (ASD) or Load and Resistance Factor Design (LRFD) specifications (AISC, 1989 and 1994). In recent years the senior author and his associates have developed parallel algorithms for optimization and control of structures on shared-memory multiprocessors such as the Encore Multimax (Adeli and Kamal, 1993) and Cray YMP8/864 (Adeli and Cheng, 1994b; Soegiarso and Adeli, 1994 & 1995; Saleh and Adeli, 1994a & b, 1996, 1997; and Adeli and Saleh, 1998).
