DocumentCode :
2605587
Title :
Creating scalable traffic simulation on clusters
Author :
Gourgoulis, Agathocles ; Terstyansky, Gabor ; Kacsuk, Peter ; Winter, Stephen
Author_Institution :
Center for Parallel Comput., Univ. of Westminster, London, UK
fYear :
2004
fDate :
11-13 Feb. 2004
Firstpage :
60
Lastpage :
65
Abstract :
We describe the implementation of a transport simulation in a parallel environment. The implementation is based on a graphical parallel programming environment called P-GRADE. The transport simulator, called MadCity, simulates a specific road network of a city and shows cars moving on the roads. To achieve scalability of the traffic simulation, the use of templates is necessary. This helps to control the number of participating processes required for the simulation without making modifications to the simulator´s source code. Performance results are collected from four, eight and sixteen nodes of the Parsifal cluster and compared with the sequential execution results of the simulator. The implementation of the transport simulator is extended further to support the simulation of multiple cities within the same cluster and on the Grid.
Keywords :
digital simulation; grid computing; parallel programming; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; visual programming; workstation clusters; MadCity transport simulator; P-GRADE graphical parallel programming environment; Parsifal cluster; grid computing; road network; scalable traffic simulation; Application software; Computational modeling; Graphical user interfaces; Monitoring; Predictive models; Programming profession; Roads; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Visualization;
fLanguage :
English
Publisher :
ieee
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2004. Proceedings. 12th Euromicro Conference on
ISSN :
1066-6192
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2083-9
Type :
conf
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.2004.1271428
Filename :
1271428
Link To Document :
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