Parallel Modeling of Fish Interaction

Author

Youseff, Lamia ; Barbaro, Alethea ; Trethewey, Peterson ; Birnir, B. ; Gilbert, John R.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., California Univ., Santa Barbara, CA

fYear

2008

fDate

16-18 July 2008

Firstpage

234

Lastpage

241

Abstract

This paper summarizes our work on a parallel algorithm for an interacting particle model, derived from the model by Czirok, Vicsek, et. al. [4, 5, 6, 15, 16]. Our model is particularly geared toward simulating the behavior of fish in large shoals. In this paper, the background and motivation for the problem are given, as well as an introduction to the mathematical model. A discussion of implementing this model in MATLAB and C++ follows. The parallel implementation is discussed with challenges particular to this mathematical model and how the authors addressed these challenges. Load balancing was performed and is discussed. Finally, a performance analysis follows, using a performance metric to compare the MATLAB , C+ + , and parallelized code.

Keywords

C++ language; biology computing; mathematics computing; parallel algorithms; parallel programming; resource allocation; zoology; C++; MATLAB; fish interacting particle model; load balancing; mathematical model; parallel algorithm; parallel modeling; parallelized code; Marine animals;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computational Science and Engineering, 2008. CSE '08. 11th IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Sao Paulo

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3193-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSE.2008.8

Filename

4578238