Title
Implementations of dispatch rules in parallel manufacturing simulation
Abstract
Most features in commercial simulation packages are often omitted in parallel simulation benchmarks, because they neither affect the overall correctness of the simulation protocol nor the benchmark's performance. In our work on parallel simulation of a wafer fabrication plant, we however find several features which complicate the implementation of the simulation protocol and affect the program performance. One such feature is the dispatch rules which a machine set uses to decide the priority of the waiting wafer lots. In a sequential simulation, the dispatch rule can be implemented in a straightforward fashion, because the whole system state is at the same simulation time, and the rule simply reads the state variables (of any machine, resources, etc.) In a parallel simulation, the dispatch rule computation may be complicated by the fact that different portions of the simulated system can be at different simulation times. This paper describes our study of the implementation of dispatch rules in parallel simulation. This is actually an instance of the little-studied problem of providing shared-state information in parallel simulation. We briefly survey previous related work. We then outline two different approaches for a dispatch rule to access the shared-state information and compare them in terms of their ease of implementation
Year
DOI
Venue
1998
10.1109/WSC.1998.746034
Winter Simulation Conference
Keywords
Field
DocType
time warp simulation,waiting wafer lot priority,parallel processing,dispatching,parallel manufacturing simulation,implementation ease,integrated circuit manufacture,production engineering computing,dispatch rule,production control,simulation protocol,dispatch rules,queueing theory,system state,shared-state information,electronics industry,program performance,commercial simulation packages,simulation times,parallel simulation benchmarks,wafer fabrication plant,simulation protocol correctness,state variables,electronic engineering computing,computational modeling,fabrication,concurrent computing,packaging,protocols,business communication
Production control,Computer science,Simulation,Wafer fabrication,Correctness,Implementation,Queueing theory,Electronics,State variable,Computation
Conference
Volume
ISBN
Citations 
2
0-7803-5133-9
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.55
6
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chu-Cheow Lim116814.45
Yoke-Hean Low2547.74
Boon-Ping Gan3689.08
Sanjay Jain41647177.87