Title :
Birds on the wall: Distributing a process-oriented simulation
Author :
Sampson, Adam T. ; Bjørndalen, John Markus ; Andrews, Paul S.
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Univ. of Kent, Canterbury
Abstract :
The CoSMoS project aims to develop reusable tools and techniques for complex systems modelling and simulation. Using process-oriented software design techniques, we have built a concurrent model of continuous space, usable in a variety of complex systems simulations. In this paper, we describe how we refactored our space model to allow our simulations to run in an efficient and highly-scalable manner across clusters of commodity machines-and, in particular, to support distributed simulation and visualisation on the Tromsoslash Display Wall.
Keywords :
concurrency control; data visualisation; digital simulation; large-scale systems; object-oriented programming; software reusability; CoSMoS project; Tromsoslash Display Wall; complex system modelling; complex system simulation; concurrent model; continuous space; distributed simulation; distributed visualisation; process-oriented simulation; process-oriented software design; reusable tool; software refactoring; Birds; Chemical processes; Computational modeling; Computer science; Displays; Laboratories; Software design; Software reusability; Software tools; Visualization;
Conference_Titel :
Evolutionary Computation, 2009. CEC '09. IEEE Congress on
Conference_Location :
Trondheim
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2958-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-2959-2
DOI :
10.1109/CEC.2009.4982952
