Article ID: | iaor20022573 |
Country: | United States |
Volume: | 33 |
Issue: | 3 |
Start Page Number: | 203 |
End Page Number: | 217 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2001 |
Journal: | IIE Transactions |
Authors: | Padman Rema, Kelton W. David, Shanker Murali S. |
Keywords: | simulation: languages & programs |
With recent advances in parallel computation, distributed simulation has become a viable way of dealing with time-consuming simulations. For distributed simulations to run efficiently, care must be taken in assigning the tasks (work) in the simulated system to the available physical processors in the computer system. An inefficient assignment can result in excessive communication times between processors and unfavorable load conditions. This leads to long run times, possibly giving performance worse than that with a uniprocessor sequential event-list implementation. This paper establishes the feasibility, and in some cases the necessity, of using dynamic task allocation (rather than