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

fYear

2009

Firstpage

225

Lastpage

231

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CEC.2009.4982952

Filename

4982952