NDLI: Dynamic memory usage in parallel simulation: a case study of a large-scale military logistics application

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Author	Booth, C.J.M. Bruce, D.I. Hoare, P.R. Kirton, M.J. Milner, K.R. Relf, I.J.
Copyright Year	1996
Description	Author affiliation: Defence Research Agency (Booth, C.J.M.)
Abstract	We report on a comparative study of the performance of shared and distributed memory parallel simulation algo rithms on a large-scale military logistics simulation, and describe the nature of the application and its parallelisa tion in some detail. We demonstrate that the patterns of communication in the simulation were such that a standard implementation of Breathing Time Buckets (BTB) was unable to achieve any speed-up. New variants of BTB were designed and implemented, and we were able to achieve a speed-up of 7.4 compared to a critical path limit of 16.9. The logistics simulation contained a number of complex data structures and its parallel implementation was highly memory-intensive. The resulting patterns of memory access significantly degraded the shared memory simulation performance relative to the equivalent distributed memory version. These results cast doubt on the effectiveness of the current generation of shared memory parallel computers in dealing with optimistic simulations of large, dynamic scenarios.
Starting Page	975
Ending Page	982
File Size	712886
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	0780333837
DOI	10.1109/WSC.1996.873393
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	1996-12-08
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Winter Simulation Conf. Board of Dir.
Subject Keyword	Computer aided software engineering Large-scale systems Logistics Data structures Computational modeling Concurrent computing Degradation Computer simulation Virtual manufacturing Workstations
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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