NDLI: MasPaWS-a Massively Parallel War Simulator

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Chandrasekharan, N. Zhi-Hai Ma Vemulapati, U.B. Porthouse Jr., W.J. Irwin, A.T.
Copyright Year	1994
Description	Author affiliation: Dept. of Math. Sci., Loyola Univ., Chicago, IL, USA (Chandrasekharan, N.; Zhi-Hai Ma)
Abstract	Describes the design, implementation and performance of a battlefield simulator for massively parallel SIMD machines. MasPaWS (Massively Parallel War Simulator) is a first-generation prototype that simulates the battle dynamics of a 2D theater to the level of individual tanks in a battlefield having certain terrain features. Objects in the battlefield are the terrain features and tanks. The battle cycles through a set of protocols: perception and combat, update combat, migration, and update migration. MasPaWS, written in the MasPar Programming Language (MPL), has been implemented on a MasPar machine. The salient features of MasPaWS include: (1) use of simple protocols to match the machine architecture, (2) parametrization of several quantities to control the computation of and communication between MasPar processors and to estimate performance, and (3) interactive user input for terrain specification and generation, and other key parameters. Our work appears to be the first of its kind in war simulation on a massively parallel SIMD machine, using thousands of processors. Our results indicate that MasPaWS is both data- and architecture-scalable for battlefield simulation, while achieving high efficiency at the same time.
Starting Page	744
Ending Page	751
File Size	808783
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	078032109X
DOI	10.1109/WSC.1994.717425
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1994-12-11
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Computational modeling Military computing Computer simulation Concurrent computing Analytical models Protocols Discrete event simulation Load management Lakes Computer science
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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