Optimized Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) for High Performance Computing (HPC) Clusters

Abstract

The aim of this project was to study the communication subsystem performance of state of the art optimistic simulator Synchronous Parallel Environment for Emulation and Discrete-Event Simulation (SPEEDES) and explore approaches for accelerating it. The primary focus has been on system level improvements; specifically, a primary goal was to explore the performance of the simulator on a cluster with a Myrinet network. Myrinet provides several features conducive to the success of parallel simulation: it provides a high bandwidth, low latency network, with user level network protocol (avoiding the Operating System overhead) and provides some processing on the network interface card to reduce the load on the host processor. In addition, algorithmic improvements to the communication susbsystem were considered.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2005
Accession Number
ADA438052

Entities

People

  • Nael Abu-ghazaleh

Organizations

  • Binghamton University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Bandwidth
  • Computations
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • Ethernet
  • Field Programmable Gate Arrays
  • High Performance Computing
  • Military Research
  • Network Protocols
  • Networks
  • Operating Systems
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Simulations
  • Simulators

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.