A web-based p systems simulator and its parallelization

  • Authors:
  • Cosmin Bonchiş;Gabriel Ciobanu;Cornel Izbaşa;Dana Petcu

  • Affiliations:
  • Research Institute “e-Austria” Timişoara, Romania;Research Institute “e-Austria” Timişoara, Romania;Research Institute “e-Austria” Timişoara, Romania;Research Institute “e-Austria” Timişoara, Romania

  • Venue:
  • UC'05 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Unconventional Computation
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present WebPS, an open-source web-enabled simulator for P systems, and a P accelerator for parallelization of the existing sequential simulators. The simulator is based on CLIPS, and it is already available as a web application. The P accelerator is used to parallelize the existing sequential simulators of the P systems. We exemplify this tool by using a simple CLIPS simulator. The speedup and the efficiency of the resulting parallel implementation are surprisingly close to the ideal ones. Combining these two ingredients, we get a complex and ready-to-use parallel simulator for P systems; no installation are required, no previous knowledge of operating systems, parallel programming or specific software.