Analysis and Optimization of a Demographic Simulator for Parallel Environments (poster paper). Büsing-Menses, V., Montañola-Sales, C., Casanovas-Garcia, J., & Pellegrini, A. In Proceedings of the 2015 Winter Simulation Conference, of WSC, pages 3218–3219, December, 2015. IEEE Computer Society.
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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.
@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},
  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.},
  doi       = {10.1109/WSC.2015.7408478},
  location  = {Huntington Beach, CA, USA},
}

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