PARAMICS-moving vehicles on the connection machine

Author

Cameron, Gordon ; Wylie, Brian J N ; McArthur, David

Author_Institution

Parallel Comput. Center, Edinburgh Univ., UK

fYear

1994

fDate

14-18 Nov 1994

Firstpage

291

Lastpage

300

Abstract

PARAMICS is a PARAllel MICroscopic Traffic Simulator which is, to our knowledge, the most powerful of its type in the world. The simulator can model around 200,000 vehicles on around 7,000 roads (taken from real road traffic network data) at faster than `real-time´ rates, making use of 16 K processor TMC Connection Machine CM-200 for the simulation aspect. The project aims to make available to road network planners a new range of tools, and demonstrates that use of high performance computing in real applications is possible and worthwhile, while yielding important and interesting research results

Keywords

digital simulation; parallel machines; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; CM-200; PARAMICS; Parallel Microscopic Traffic Simulator; TMC Connection Machine; connection machine; high performance computing; moving vehicles; real-time; road network planners; road traffic network data; Computational modeling; Computer applications; Computer networks; Concurrent computing; Microscopy; Packaging machines; Parallel processing; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Supercomputing '94., Proceedings

Conference_Location

Washington, DC

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6605-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SUPERC.1994.344292

Filename

344292