The Virtual Marathon: Parallel Computing Supports Crowd Simulations

  • Authors:
  • Erdal Yilmaz;Veysi Isler;Yasemin Yardimci Cetin

  • Affiliations:
  • Middle East Technical University;Middle East Technical University;Middle East Technical University

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

To be realistic, an urban model must include appropriate numbers of pedestrians, vehicles, and other dynamic entities. Using a parallelcomputing architecture, researchers simulated a marathon with more than a million participants. To simulate participant behavior, they used fuzzy logic on a GPU to perform millions of inferences in real time.