Optimizing model interoperability in parallel discrete event simulation for cluster environment

  • Authors:
  • Yaocheng Zhang;Ge Li;Kedi Huang

  • Affiliations:
  • National University of Defense Technology P.R. China;National University of Defense Technology P.R. China;National University of Defense Technology P.R. China

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2007 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

Model interoperability enables independently developed models to interoperate with each other and has been a key technology in distributed simulations such as HLA-supported simulations. Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) also uses object models to represent real world entities thus it can also benefit from adopting a model interoperability mechanism. The work in this paper developed a model interoperability layer in the PDES environment by conforming to its event-object paradigm. The model interoperability layer uses a proxy-based approach to enable object models in a PDES to "publish" and "subscribe" their attributes similar to mechanisms in HLA. Especially, this design is optimized for executing in cluster-like environment. Preliminary performance tests show that the optimization improves Data Distribution Management performance up to 12 times in a cluster environment compared with unoptimized design.