Parallel and Distributed Discrete Event Simulation

Parallel and Distributed Discrete Event Simulation

Author: Carl Tropper

Publisher: Nova Publishers

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9781590333778

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Discrete-event simulation has long been an integral part of the design process of complex engineering systems and the modelling of natural phenomena. Many of the systems that we seek to understand or control can be modelled as digital systems. In a digital model, we view the system at discrete instants of time, in effect taking snapshots of the system at these instants. For example, in a computer network simulation an event can be the sending of a message from one node to another node while in a VLSI logic simulation, the arrival of a signal at a gate may be viewed as an event. Digital systems such as computer systems are naturally susceptible to this approach. However, a variety of other systems may also be modelled this way. These include transportation systems such as air-traffic control systems, epidemiological models such as the spreading of a virus, and military war-gaming models. This book is representative of the advances in this field.


Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems

Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems

Author: Richard M. Fujimoto

Publisher: Wiley-Interscience

Published: 2000-01-03

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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From the preface, page xv: [...] My goal in writing Parallel and Distributed Simulation Systems, is to give an in-depth treatment of technical issues concerning the execution of discrete event simulation programs on computing platforms composed of many processores interconnected through a network"


Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

Parallel and Distributed Simulation of Discrete Event Systems

Author: Alois Ferscha

Publisher:

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 51

ISBN-13:

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Abstract: "The achievements attained in accelerating the simulation of the dynamics of complex discrete event systems using parallel or distributed multiprocessing environments are comprehensively presented. While parallel discrete event simulation (DES) governs the evolution of the system over simulated time in an iterative SIMD way, distributed DES tries to spatially decompose the event structure underlying the system, and executes event occurrences in spatial subregions by logical processes (LPs) usually assigned to different (physical) processing elements. Synchronization protocols are necessary in this approach to avoid timing inconsistencies and to guarantee the preservation of event causalities across LPs. Included in the survey are discussions on the sources and levels of parallelism, synchronous vs. asynchronous simulation and principles of LP simulation. In the context of conservative LP simulation (Chandy/Misra/Bryant) deadlock avoidance and deadlock detection/recovery strategies, Conservative Time Windows and the Carrier Nullmessage protocol are presented. Related to optimistic LP simulation (Time Warp), Optimistic Time Windows, memory management, GVT computation, probabilistic optimism control and adaptive schemes are investigated."


Out-of-order Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Electronic System-level Design

Out-of-order Parallel Discrete Event Simulation for Electronic System-level Design

Author: Weiwei Chen

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2014-07-24

Total Pages: 158

ISBN-13: 3319087533

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This book offers readers a set of new approaches and tools a set of tools and techniques for facing challenges in parallelization with design of embedded systems. It provides an advanced parallel simulation infrastructure for efficient and effective system-level model validation and development so as to build better products in less time. Since parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) has the potential to exploit the underlying parallel computational capability in today’s multi-core simulation hosts, the author begins by reviewing the parallelization of discrete event simulation, identifying problems and solutions. She then describes out-of-order parallel discrete event simulation (OoO PDES), a novel approach for efficient validation of system-level designs by aggressively exploiting the parallel capabilities of todays’ multi-core PCs. This approach enables readers to design simulators that can fully exploit the parallel processing capability of the multi-core system to achieve fast speed simulation, without loss of simulation and timing accuracy. Based on this parallel simulation infrastructure, the author further describes automatic approaches that help the designer quickly to narrow down the debugging targets in faulty ESL models with parallelism.


Parallel Computing Technologies

Parallel Computing Technologies

Author: Victor Malyshkin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 486

ISBN-13: 3642032753

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The PaCT-2009 (Parallel Computing Technologies) conference was a four-day eventheld in Novosibirsk. This was the tenth internationalconference to be held in the PaCT series. The conferences are held in Russia every odd year. The ?rst conference, PaCT 1991, was held in Novosibirsk (Academgorodok), September 7–11, 1991. The next PaCT conferences were held in Obninsk (near Moscow), August 30 to September 4, 1993; in St. Petersburg, September 12–15, 1995; in Yaroslavl, September 9–12, 1997; in Pushkin (near St. Petersburg), September 6–10, 1999; in Academgorodok (Novosibirsk), September 3–7, 2001; in Nizhni Novgorod, September 15–19, 2003; in Krasnoyarsk, September 5–9, 2005; in Pereslavl-Zalessky, September 3–7, 2007. Since 1995 all the PaCT Proceedings have been published by Springer in the LNCS series. PaCT-2009 was jointly organized by the Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) and the State University of Novosibirsk. The purpose of the conference was to bring together scientists working on theory, architecture, software, hardware and the solution of lar- scale problems in order to provide integrated discussions on parallel computing technologies. The conference attracted about 100 participants from around the world. Authors from 17 countries submitted 72 papers. Of those submitted, 34 were selected for the conference as regular papers; there were also 2 invited - pers. In addition there were a number of posters presented. All the papers were internationallyreviewedby at leastthree referees. A demo sessionwasorganized for the participants.


Discrete-event System Simulation

Discrete-event System Simulation

Author: Jerry Banks

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 634

ISBN-13:

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This book provides a basic treatment of discrete-event simulation, including the proper collection and analysis of data, the use of analytic techniques, verification and validation of models, and designing simulation experiments.Contains up-to-date treatment of simulation of manufacturing and material handling systems. Includes numerous solved examples. Offers an integrated website. Explains how to interpret simulation software output.For those interested in learning more about discrete-event simulation.