A load management system for running HLA-based distributed simulations over the grid

Author

Cai, Wentong ; Turner, Stephen J. ; Zhao, Hanfeng

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Eng., Nat. Technol. Univ., Singapore

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

7

Lastpage

14

Abstract

Running a large-scale distributed simulation may need a large amount of computing resources at geographically different locations. These resources may be from different organizations. The simulation may run for a long period of time and the availability and amount of computing resources available may change during the course of simulation execution. Therefore, coordinating and managing resources for distributed simulation to complete the simulation efficiently and effectively is a critical issue. This paper describes a load management system for HLA-based distributed simulation. The system is constructed on top of a grid computing environment supported by Globus. The overall structure of the system is presented in the paper and how the system saves and restores a federate is also discussed in detail.

Keywords

digital simulation; resource allocation; software architecture; workstation clusters; Globus; HLA-based distributed simulations; computing resources; federate; grid computing environment; large-scale distributed simulation; load management system; Atherosclerosis; Computational modeling; Computer simulation; Concurrent computing; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Large-scale systems; Least squares approximation; Load management; Resource management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications, 2002. Proceedings. Sixth IEEE International Workshop on

ISSN

1530-1990

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1853-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DISRTA.2002.1166883

Filename

1166883