Investigating the behavior of a shop order manufacturing sistem by using simulation
Proceedings of the Emerging M&S Applications in Industry & Academia / Modeling and Humanities Symposium
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Multidisciplinary design of complex products leads to an increasing demand for high performance simulation HPS platforms. One great challenge is how to achieve high efficient utilisation of large-scale simulation resources in distributed and heterogeneous environments. This article reports a virtualisation-based methodology to realise a HPS platform. This research is driven by the issues concerning large-scale simulation resources deployment and complex simulation environment construction, efficient and transparent utilisation of fine-grained simulation resources and high reliable simulation with fault tolerance. A framework of virtualisation-based simulation platform VSIM is first proposed. Then the article investigates and discusses key approaches in VSIM, including simulation resources modelling, a method to automatically deploying simulation resources for dynamic construction of system environment, and a live migration mechanism in case of faults in run-time simulation. Furthermore, the proposed methodology is applied to a multidisciplinary design system for aircraft virtual prototyping and some experiments are conducted. The experimental results show that the proposed methodology can 1 significantly improve the utilisation of fine-grained simulation resources, 2 result in a great reduction in deployment time and an increased flexibility for simulation environment construction and 3achieve fault tolerant simulation.