NDLI: Scalable RTI-Based Parallel Simulation of Networks

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Park, Alfred Riley, George F. Perumalla, Kalyan S. Fujimoto, Richard M.
Abstract	Federated simulation interfaces such as the High LevelArchitecture (HLA) were designed for interoperability,and as such are not traditionally associated with highperformancecomputing. In this paper, we present resultsof a case study examining the use of federated simulationsusing runtime infrastructure (RTI) software to realizelarge-scale parallel network simulators. We examine theperformance of two different federated networksimulators, and describe RTI performance optimizationsthat were used to achieve efficient execution. We showthat RTI-based parallel simulations can scale extremelywell and achieve very high speedup. Our experimentsyielded more than 80-fold scaled speedup in simulatinglarge TCP/IP networks, demonstrating performance of upto 6 million simulated packet transmissions per second ona Linux cluster. Networks containing up to two millionnetwork nodes (routers and end systems) were simulated.
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0769519709
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2003-06-10
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Scalable RTI-Based Parallel Simulation of Networks