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Balancing the load in large-scale distributed entity-level simulations

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Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel (IRREGULAR 1998)

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A distributed, parallel implementation of the widely used Modular Semi-Automated Forces (ModSAF) Distributed Interactive Simulation (DIS) is presented, using networked high-performance resources to simulate large-scale entity-level exercises. Processing, communication and I/O demands increase dramatically as the simulation grows in terms of size or complexity. A general framework for functional decomposition and scalable communications architecture is presented. An analysis of the communications load within a single computer and between computers is presented. Ongoing activities to address more dynamically communication limitations and processing load using Globus are discussed.

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  1. California Institute of Technology, 91125, Pasadena, California, USA

    Sharon Brunett

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Alfonso Ferreira José Rolim Horst Simon Shang-Hua Teng

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Brunett, S. (1998). Balancing the load in large-scale distributed entity-level simulations. In: Ferreira, A., Rolim, J., Simon, H., Teng, SH. (eds) Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel. IRREGULAR 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1457. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018551

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