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Development of a runtime infrastructure for large-scale distributed simulations

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Buquan Liu,

Yiping Yao,

Jing Tao,

Huaimin WangAuthors Info & Claims

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

Pages 1036 - 1043

Published: 03 December 2006 Publication History

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With the development of distributed modeling and simulation, it is necessary for the RTI to support large-scale applications. However, many RTIs can not support largescale distributed simulations with more than 100 federates very well nowadays. StarLink⁺ is an RTI developed according to the IEEE 1516 standard, which can be used for large-scale simulations with thousands of federates. Great innovations are made in StarLink⁺, such as its architecture and inner implementation technologies. This paper presents the two-level architecture in StarLink⁺. The unique architecture has the advantages of both central architecture and distributed architecture. To improve the performance much more for large-scale simulations, two important technologies, i.e. multiple threads and data packing, are adopted in StarLink⁺. In addition, this paper explains the efficient advancing mechanism in time management and discusses the large-scale experiments with thousands of federates in StarLink⁺.

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Liu BYao YWang HTew J(2007)An efficient algorithm in the HLA time managementProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351655(585-593)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1351542.1351655

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

December 2006

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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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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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Liu BYao YWang HTew J(2007)An efficient algorithm in the HLA time managementProceedings of the 39th conference on Winter simulation: 40 years! The best is yet to come10.5555/1351542.1351655(585-593)Online publication date: 9-Dec-2007
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