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Enhancement of memory pools toward a multi-threaded implementation of the joint integrated mission model (JIMM)

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David W. MutschlerAuthors Info & Claims

WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

Pages 856 - 862

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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The Joint Integrated Mission Model (JIMM) is a legacy real-time discrete-event simulator. Its initial single threaded implementation employed a memory pool to speed up run-time performance and easily checkpoint simulation state. Unfortunately, when JIMM started migrating to a multi-threaded implementation, this legacy memory pool was quickly identified as a bottleneck. This problem is addressed by dividing the memory into large chunks managed by a global controller but where threadspecific memory managers handled lower level memory allocation. This paper will focus on the legacy memory pool in JIMM and enhancements necessary for an efficient multi-threaded implementation.

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Mutschler DYücesan E(2010)Employing proxies to improve parallel discrete event simulation performanceProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433693(1512-1521)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2433508.2433693
Mutschler DJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)Deferred vs. immediate modification of simulation state in a parallel discrete event simulator using threaded worker poolsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516931(1055-1060)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516931

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WSC '06: Proceedings of the 38th conference on Winter simulation

December 2006

2429 pages

ISBN:1424405017

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L. Felipe Perrone
Bucknell University
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Barry G. Lawson
University of Richmond
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Jason Liu
Colorado School of Mines
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Frederick P. Wieland
Sensis Corporation
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David Nicol
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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Richard Fujimoto
College of Computing, Georgia Tech

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Mutschler DYücesan E(2010)Employing proxies to improve parallel discrete event simulation performanceProceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference10.5555/2433508.2433693(1512-1521)Online publication date: 5-Dec-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2433508.2433693
Mutschler DJefferson TFowler JIngalls R(2008)Deferred vs. immediate modification of simulation state in a parallel discrete event simulator using threaded worker poolsProceedings of the 40th Conference on Winter Simulation10.5555/1516744.1516931(1055-1060)Online publication date: 7-Dec-2008
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1516744.1516931

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