Analysis and Optimization of a Demographic Simulator for Parallel Environments (poster paper)

Vanessa Büsing-Menses, Cristina Montañola-Sales, Josep Casanovas-Garcia, and Alessandro Pellegrini


Published in: Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference
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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.

BibTeX Entry:

@inproceedings{Bus15,
author = {Büsing-Menses, Vanessa and Montañola-Sales, Cristina and Casanovas-Garcia, Josep and Pellegrini, Alessandro},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference},
title = {Analysis and Optimization of a Demographic Simulator for Parallel Environments (poster paper)},
year = {2015},
month = dec,
pages = {3218--3219},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
series = {WSC},
doi = {10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478},
location = {Huntington Beach, CA, USA}
}