Paper Info
Title
Managing event traces for a web front-end to a parallel simulation
Abstract
To enhance the widespread use of a parallel supply chain simulator, a web front-end that enables access at any time and from any location has been developed. The front-end provides the capability of model uploading, simulation runs initiation, simulation activities visualization, and simulation statistics collection. Visualizing the simulation activities requires the parallel simulator to record event traces to the file system for displaying purposes. To minimize the negative impact of the recording on the performance of parallel simulation, an event trace management algorithm, coupled with a buffering mechanism, is proposed. The approach was evaluated using six sample supply chain models. The results show that the proposed algorithm is capable of maintaining the same level of speedup when recording is performed (in the range of 2.5 to 3.0 on a 4-CPU shared memory system), as compared to runs without recording of event traces
Year
DOI
Venue
2001
10.1109/WSC.2001.977349
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
simulation runs initiation,model uploading,event traces management,event trace management algorithm,discrete event simulation,online front-ends,parallel simulator,event trace,simulation activity,parallel supply chain simulator,buffering mechanism,parallel simulation,simulation statistics collection,internet,file system,information resources,simulation activities visualization,4-cpu shared memory system,web front-end,supply chains,supply chain,visualization,statistics,computational modeling,memory management,front end
Front and back ends,File system,Shared memory,Visualization,Computer science,Simulation,Upload,Real-time computing,Supply chain,Discrete event simulation,Speedup
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
1
0-7803-7307-3
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
5
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Boon Ping Gan132934.25
Li Liu2252.51
Zhengrong Ji322617.26
Stephen J. Turner457751.48
Wentong Cai51928197.81