Title :
A teragrid-enabled distributed discrete event agent-based epidemiological simulation
Author :
Roberts, Douglas J. ; Simoni, Diglio A.
Author_Institution :
RTI Int., Research Triangle Park
Abstract :
We discuss design issues related to the transformation of a mature Agent-Based Model (ABM) for computational epidemiology into a "grid-aware" version. EpiSims is a distributed discrete event ABM that has been in production for nearly a decade. Working under a grant from the National Science Foundation and the NIH (NIGMS) funded MIDAS project, we are reengineering EpiSims to run as a single job on multiple Linux clusters on the NSF TeraGrid.
Keywords :
Linux; discrete event simulation; diseases; grid computing; medical computing; multi-agent systems; EpiSims; MIDAS project; agent-based model; epidemiological simulation; grid-aware version; multiple Linux cluster; teragrid-enabled distributed discrete event agent; Bioinformatics; Clustering algorithms; Computational modeling; Discrete event simulation; Engines; Geophysics computing; Grid computing; Influenza; Linux; Production;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2007 Winter
Conference_Location :
Washington, DC
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-1306-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2007.4419771
