Title
Scalability demonstration of a large scale GPU-based network simulator
Abstract
Large scale simulation is a challenging issue of the network research area. In particular, simulating one large space where a big number of nodes are in continuous interaction remains complex even if we consider distributed and parallel solutions. In this perspective; GPU appears as a promising hardware providing an important number of independent computing resources. Nevertheless its usage requires a new software design. In that context, Cunetsim is a distributed GPU-based framework which aims to combine the power of GPUs with the flexibility of distributed solution in order to increase the scalability while reducing the complexity. In this work we aim to demonstrate the efficiency and the scalability of that framework on one hand and its robustness in term of event handling on the other hand; therefore we propose a validation scenario including 1.5 millions nodes where we generate up to 10 billions events; we conduct the simulation using one workstation which includes three GPUs.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2013
SIMUTools
important number,gpu-based network simulator,billions event,large space,big number,challenging issue,continuous interaction,large scale simulation,event handling,independent computing resource,scalability demonstration,gpu-based framework,gpgpu,heterogeneous computing,system architecture
Field
DocType
Citations 
Software design,Computer science,Symmetric multiprocessor system,Workstation,Network simulation,Real-time computing,Robustness (computer science),General-purpose computing on graphics processing units,Systems architecture,Scalability
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
2
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bilel Ben Romdhanne182.39
Mohamed Said Mosli Bouksiaa210.69
Navid Nikaein385878.83
Christian Bonnet489968.13