Title :
IVHS traffic modeling using parallel computing: performance results
Abstract :
The THOREAU simulation of vehicular traffic on city streets and freeways, developed by MITRE Corporation, has been adapted to run in parallel on a network of Unix workstations connected by ethernet. Tenfold and larger speedups were many as 40 parallel threads on 34 processors. The performance curves show little sign of leveling off with higher degrees of parallelism, which may mean that further gains can be obtained with more processors
Keywords :
computer aided analysis; digital simulation; distributed memory systems; intelligent control; local area networks; parallel programming; performance evaluation; road traffic; traffic computer control; IVHS traffic modeling; MITRE Corporation; THOREAU simulation; Unix workstations; city streets; ethernet; freeways; parallel computing; performance results; vehicular traffic; Cities and towns; Ethernet networks; Navigation; Object oriented modeling; Parallel processing; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel Processing Symposium, 1994. Proceedings., Eighth International
Conference_Location :
Cancun
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-5602-6
DOI :
10.1109/IPPS.1994.288229
