Paper Info
Title
D-Mason on the Cloud: An Experience with Amazon Web Services.
Abstract
D-Mason framework is a parallel version of the Mason library for writing and running Agent-based simulations - a class of models that, by simulating the behavior of multiple agents, aims to emulate and/or predict complex phenomena. D-Mason has been conceived to harness the amount of unused computing power available in common installations like educational laboratory. Then the focus moved to dedicated installation, such as massively parallel machines or supercomputing centers. In this paper, D-Mason takes another step forward and now it can be used on a cloud environment. The goal of the paper is twofold. Firstly, we are going to present D-Mason on the cloud - a D-Mason extension that, starting from an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) abstraction, and exploiting Amazon Web Services and StarCluster, provides a SIMulation-as-a-Service (SIMaaS) abstraction that simplifies the process of setting up and running distributed simulations in the cloud. Secondly, an additional goal of the paper is to assess computational and economic efficiency of running distributed multi-agent simulations on the Amazon Web Services EC2 instances. The computational speed and costs of an EC2 cluster will be compared against an on-site HPC cluster.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/978-3-319-58943-5_26
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Keywords
Field
DocType
Agent-Based simulation Models,Cloud computing,D-Mason,Parallel computing,Distributed systems,High performance computing
Supercomputer,Computer science,Massively parallel,Amazon web services,Cloud computing,Distributed computing
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
10104
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Michele Carillo181.94
Gennaro Cordasco234447.06
Flavio Serrapica381.94
Carmine Spagnuolo44410.31
Przemyslaw Szufel5174.75
Luca Vicidomini6144.27