New Parallel Simulation Techniques of DEVS and Cell-DEVS in CD++

  • Authors:
  • Ezequiel Glinsky;Gabriel Wainer

  • Affiliations:
  • Carleton University, Canada;Carleton University, Canada

  • Venue:
  • ANSS '06 Proceedings of the 39th annual Symposium on Simulation
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

DEVS is a sound formal modeling and simulation (M&S) framework based on generic dynamic system concepts. Cell-DEVS is a formalism for cell-shaped models based on DEVS. This work presents a new simulation technique for execution of DEVS and Cell- DEVS models in parallel/distributed environments. The parallel simulator is based on Time Warp, and developed as a new simulation engine for CD++, a M&S toolkit that implements DEVS and Cell-DEVS theories. The technique uses a non-hierarchical approach that simplifies the structure of the simulator and reduces the communication overhead. The results obtained allowed us to achieve considerable speedups.