Title :
Parallel simulation of Petri nets on desktop PC hardware
Author :
Geist, Robert ; Hicks, Jacob ; Smotherman, Mark ; Westall, James
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Clemson Univ., SC, USA
Abstract :
A comparatively simple approach to highly parallel simulation of Petri nets on commodity, desktop PC hardware is suggested. A mapping, described in the programming language Cg, of Petri net semantics to the SIMD architecture of NVidia 5-series and 6-series GPUs is provided, and a prototype simulator is tested on both conflict-intensive and conflict-free Petri net models. In all cases, the prototype parallel simulator is seen to deliver substantial performance gains over its serial counterparts. Limitations of the approach and open design issues are also described.
Keywords :
Petri nets; digital simulation; mathematics computing; parallel processing; 6-series GPU; NVidia 5-series; Petri net semantics; Petri nets; SIMD architecture; desktop PC hardware; parallel simulation; programming language; prototype parallel simulator; Bandwidth; Computational modeling; Computer science; Discrete event simulation; Fires; Hardware; Inhibitors; Jacobian matrices; Petri nets; Virtual prototyping;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2005 Proceedings of the Winter
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-9519-0
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2005.1574272
