Novel performance optimization of large-scale discrete-event simulation on the Cell Broadband Engine

This paper presents a computing technique for efficient parallel simulation of large-scale discrete-event models on the IBM Cell Broadband Engine (CBE), which has one Power Processor Element (PPE) and eight Synergistic Processing Elements (SPE). Based on the generalpurpose Discrete Event System Specification (DEVS), the technique tackles all performance bottlenecks, combining multi-dimensional parallelism and various optimizations. Preliminary experiments have produced very promising

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2010
• Where: IEEEHPCS
• Authors: Qi Liu, Gabriel A. Wainer, Ligang Lu, Michael Perrone
• Keywords: Applied Computing, Discrete Event System Specification, Efficient Parallel Simulation, IEEEHPCS 2010, Large-scale Discrete-event Models