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Load-sharing policies in parallel simulation of agent-based demographic models
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Author:
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Pellegrini, Alessandro; Montañola Sales, Cristina; Quaglia, Francesco; Casanovas Garcia, Josep
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Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Estadística i Investigació Operativa; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. MPI - Modelització i Processament de la Informació |
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Execution parallelism in agent-Based Simulation (ABS) allows to deal with complex/large-scale models. This raises the need for runtime environments able to fully exploit hardware parallelism, while jointly offering ABS-suited programming abstractions. In this paper, we target last-generation Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) platforms for multicore systems. We discuss a programming model to support both implicit (in-place access) and explicit (message passing) interactions across concurrent Logical Processes (LPs). We discuss different load-sharing policies combining event rate and implicit/explicit LPs’ interactions. We present a performance study conducted on a synthetic test case, representative of a class of agent-based models. |
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Peer Reviewed |
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-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Informàtica::Arquitectura de computadors -Multiagent systems -Parallel processing (Electronic computers) -Digital simulation -Discrete event simulation -Message passing -Multiprocessing systems -Resource allocation -Sistemes multiagent -Processament en paral·lel (Ordinadors) |
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Article - Submitted version Article |
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