Title :
Managing external workload with BSP Time Warp
Author :
Low, Malcolm Yoke Hean
Author_Institution :
Comput. Lab., Oxford Univ., UK
Abstract :
This paper describes an extension to the existing BSP Time Warp (Bulk Synchronous Parallel Time Warp) dynamic load-balancing algorithm to allow the management of interruption from external workload. Experiments carried out on a manufacturing simulation model using different partition strategies with and without interruption from external workload show that significant performance improvement can be achieved with external workload management.
Keywords :
computer integrated manufacturing; parallel processing; resource allocation; software performance evaluation; time warp simulation; BSP Time Warp; Bulk Synchronous Parallel Time Warp; dynamic load-balancing algorithm; experiments; external workload management; manufacturing simulation model; performance improvement; Computational modeling; Concurrent computing; Costs; Heuristic algorithms; Interference; Laboratories; Partitioning algorithms; Protocols; Time warp simulation; Virtual manufacturing;
Conference_Titel :
Simulation Conference, 2002. Proceedings of the Winter
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7614-5
DOI :
10.1109/WSC.2002.1172950
