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In this paper we present WebPS, an open-source web-enabled simulator for P systems, and a P accelerator for parallelization of the existing sequential simulators. The simulator is based on CLIPS, and it is already available as a web application. The P accelerator is used to parallelize the existing sequential simulators of the P systems. We exemplify this tool by using a simple CLIPS simulator. The speedup and the efficiency of the resulting parallel implementation are surprisingly close to the ideal ones. Combining these two ingredients, we get a complex and ready-to-use parallel simulator for P systems; no installation are required, no previous knowledge of operating systems, parallel programming or specific software.
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Bonchiş, C., Ciobanu, G., Izbaşa, C., Petcu, D. (2005). A Web-Based P Systems Simulator and Its Parallelization. In: Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J., Păun, G., Pérez-Jímenez, M.J., Rozenberg, G. (eds) Unconventional Computation. UC 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3699. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11560319_7
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