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With the recent deployment of global experimental networking facilities, dozens of computer networks with large numbers of computers have become available for scientific studies. Multiple Replications in Parallel (MRIP) is a distributed scenario of sequential quantitative stochastic simulation which offers significant speedup of simulation if it is executed on multiple computers of a local area network. We report results of running MRIP simulations on PlanetLab, a global overlay network which can currently access more than a thousand computers in forty different countries round the globe. Our simulations were run using Akaroa2, a universal controller of quantitative discrete event simulation designed for automatic launching of MRIP-based experiments. Our experimental results provide strong evidence that global experimental networks, such as PlanetLab, can efficiently be used for quantitative simulation, without compromising speed and efficiency.
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Haque, M., Pawlikowski, K., McNickle, D., Ewing, G. (2011). World-Wide Distributed Multiple Replications in Parallel for Quantitative Sequential Simulation. In: Xiang, Y., Cuzzocrea, A., Hobbs, M., Zhou, W. (eds) Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing. ICA3PP 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7017. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24669-2_4
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