Analysis and optimization of a demographic simulator for parallel environments

Vanessa Busing-Meneses; Cristina Montanola-Sales; Josep Casanovas-Garcia; Alessandro Pellegrini

doi:10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478

Analysis and optimization of a demographic simulator for parallel environments

Vanessa Busing-Meneses, Cristina Montanola-Sales, Josep Casanovas-Garcia, Alessandro Pellegrini

Research output: Book chapter › Conference contribution › peer-review

Abstract

In the past years, the advent of multi-core machines has led to the need for adapting current simulation solutions to modern hardware architectures. In this poster, we present a solution to exploit multicore shared-memory capacities in Yades, a parallel tool for running socio-demography dynamic simulations. We propose to abandon the single-threaded programming approach addresses in Yades by using ROOT-Sim, a library which allows to apply discrete event simulation to parallel environments profiting share-memory capabilities. As a result of this new approach, our results show the improvement in Yades' performance and scalability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages	3218-3219
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Electronic)	9781467397438
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2015
Externally published	Yes
Event	Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 - Huntington Beach, United States Duration: 6 Dec 2015 → 9 Dec 2015

Publication series

Name	Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference
Volume	2016-February
ISSN (Print)	0891-7736

Conference

Conference	Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015
Country/Territory	United States
City	Huntington Beach
Period	6/12/15 → 9/12/15

Keywords

ABM
Demography
PDES
Parallel simulation
Social Simulation

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Busing-Meneses, V., Montanola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., & Pellegrini, A. (2015). Analysis and optimization of a demographic simulator for parallel environments. In 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015 (pp. 3218-3219). Article 7408478 (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2016-February). Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478

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Busing-Meneses, V, Montanola-Sales, C, Casanovas-Garcia, J & Pellegrini, A 2015, Analysis and optimization of a demographic simulator for parallel environments. in 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015., 7408478, Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference, vol. 2016-February, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., pp. 3218-3219, Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015, Huntington Beach, United States, 6/12/15. https://doi.org/10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478

Analysis and optimization of a demographic simulator for parallel environments. / Busing-Meneses, Vanessa; Montanola-Sales, Cristina; Casanovas-Garcia, Josep et al.
2015 Winter Simulation Conference, WSC 2015. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015. p. 3218-3219 7408478 (Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference; Vol. 2016-February).

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