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DOI
10.5286/raltr.2012013
Persistent URL
http://purl.org/net/epubs/work/63396
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Record Id
63396
Title
FLAME : an approach to the parallelisation of agent-based applications
Contributors
LS Chin (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
DJ Worth (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
C Greenough (STFC Rutherford Appleton Lab.)
,
S Coakley (Sheffield U.)
,
M Holcombe (Sheffield U.)
,
M Kiran (Sheffield U.)
Abstract
This report describes an approach to the parallelisation of agent-based applications. The software framework which forms the foundation of this work is the Flexible Large-scale Agent Modelling Environment - FLAME - which is being developed in a collaboration between the Computer Science Department of the University of Sheffeld and the Software Engineering Group at STFC's Rutherford Appleton Lab- oratory. FLAME is a generic program generator for agent-based simulations. Using a defini-tion of the agent-based model and an C implementation of the agents state change functions, FLAME generates a complete ABM application. FLAME can generate versions of the application which can execute on both serial and parallel systems. This report describes this process in detail and focuses on the techniques used within FLAME to parallelise the agent-based application. Some test results are presented which show some promising speed-ups of these applications. The report concludes with some future developments of the FLAME functionality and architecture which should improve the parallel e ciency of FLAME generated applications.
Organisation
CSE-SEG
,
STFC
,
SCI-COMP
Keywords
optimisation
,
parallelisation
,
agent-based modelling
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Language
English (EN)
Type
Details
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Year
Report
RAL Technical Reports
RAL-TR-2012-013. 2012.
RAL-TR-2012-013.pdf
2012
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