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Transparent Distributed Cross-State Synchronization in Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

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  • Matteo Principe

    (Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)

  • Alessandro Pellegrini

    (Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)

  • Francesco Quaglia

    (Department DICII, University Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy)

  • Bruno Ciciani

    (Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy)

Abstract

In this report we tackle transparent deploy and seamless execution of sequentially-coded Parallel Discrete Event Simulation (PDES) models on distributed computing architectures. We present an innovative distributed synchronization protocol which allows, in conjunction with ad-hoc Operating System memory management facilities, to access the simulation state of any concurrent Logical Process (LP) running on any node of the distributed computing environment, as if it were locally hosted by a unique node - more specifically, by a unique address space. By relying on our facilities, the simulation model developer is not required to implement neither explicit message passing, nor to rely on annotations or specific programming constructs. He can simply code the accesses to the LPs' states in place (e.g. via pointers), which significantly simplifies the software development process. The burden of synchronization and correct handling of these accesses is demanded from our user-space and kernel-space runtime environment. Our proposal targets Linux on x86 64 systems and has been integrated within the ROOT-Sim open-source optimistic simulation platform, although its design principles, and most parts of the developed software, are of general relevance.

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  • Matteo Principe & Alessandro Pellegrini & Francesco Quaglia & Bruno Ciciani, 2017. "Transparent Distributed Cross-State Synchronization in Optimistic Parallel Discrete Event Simulation," DIAG Technical Reports 2017-12, Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, Universita' degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza".
  • Handle: RePEc:aeg:report:2017-12
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    Distributed Simulation ; High-Performance Computing ; PDES ; Programming Models;
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