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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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An agent-based peer-to-peer grid computing architecture

Tang, Jia. January 2005 (has links)
Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Wollongong, 2005. / Typescript. Includes bibliographical references: leaf 88-95.
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A grid based approach for the control and recall of the properties of IEEE 1394 audio devices

Foulkes, Philip James January 2009 (has links)
The control of modern audio studios is complex. Audio mixing desks have grown to the point where they contain thousands of parameters. The control surfaces of these devices do not reflect the routing and signal processing capabilities that the devices are capable of. Software audio mixing desk editors have been developed that allow for the remote control of these devices, but their graphical user interfaces retain the complexities of the audio mixing desk that they represent. In this thesis, we propose a grid approach to audio mixing. The developed grid audio mixing desk editor represents an audio mixing desk as a series of graphical routing matrices. These routing matrices expose the various signal processing points and signal flows that exist within an audio mixing desk. The routing matrices allow for audio signals to be routed within the device, and allow for the device’s parameters to be adjusted by selecting the appropriate signal processing points. With the use of the programming interfaces that are defined as part of the Studio Connections – Total Recall SDK, the audio mixing desk editor was integrated with compatible DAW applications to provide persistence of audio mixing desk parameter states. Many audio studios currently use digital networks to connect audio devices together. Audio and control signals are patched between devices through the use of software patchbays that run on computers. We propose a double grid-based FireWire patchbay aimed to simplify the patching of signals between audio devices on a FireWire network. The FireWire patchbay was implemented in such a way such that it can host software device editors that are Studio Connections compatible. This has allowed software device editors to be associated with the devices that are represented on the FireWire patchbay, thus allowing for studio wide control from a single application. The double grid-based patchbay was implemented such that it can be hosted by compatible DAW applications. Through this, the double grid-based patchbay application is able to provide the DAW application with the state of the parameters of the devices in a studio, as well as the connections between them. The DAW application may save this state data to its native song files. This state data may be passed back to the double grid-based patchbay when the song file is reloaded at a later stage. This state data may then be used by the patchbay to restore the parameters of the patchbay and its device editors to a previous state. This restored state may then be transferred to the hardware devices being represented by the patchbay.
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Escalonamento de aplicações paralelas: de clusters para grids

Jacinto, Daniele Santini 24 August 2007 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-06-02T19:05:26Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 1631.pdf: 1988300 bytes, checksum: e305adb917a8fdf720897942982390b7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-08-24 / Different algorithms provide efficient scheduling of parallel applications on distributed and heterogeneous computational platforms, such as computational grids. Most scheduling algorithms for such environments require an application model represented by a directed acyclic graph (DAG), selecting tasks for execution according to their processing and communication characteristics. The obtainment of DAGs for real applications, however, is not a simple quest. The required knowledge about the application tasks and the communication among them, considering existing transmission cycles, harden the elaboration of appropriate graphs. Particularly, MPI programs, that represent a meaningful portion of existing parallel applications, usually present a cyclic communication model among the master and the processing nodes. This behavior prevents most scheduling algorithms to be employed as they recursively traverse the graphs to prioritize the tasks. In this sense, this work presents a mechanism for the automatic creation of DAGs for real MPI application originally developed for homogeneous clusters. In order to do so, applications go through a monitored execution in a cluster and the collected data are used for the elaboration of an appropriate DAGs. Data dependencies are identified and existing cycles among the tasks are eliminated. The HEFT scheduling algorithm is used to evaluate the application model and the schedule obtained is then automatically converted into an RSL (Resource Specification Language) file for execution in a grid with Globus. Results from running real applications and simulations show using the grid can be advantageous. / Algoritmos diferentes possibilitam o escalonamento eficiente de aplicações paralelas em plataformas computacionais heterogêneas e distribuídas, tais como grids computacionais. Vários algoritmos de escalonamento para esses ambientes necessitam de um modelo de aplicação representado por um grafo acíclico direcionado (GAD), selecionando tarefas para execução de acordo com suas características de comunicação e de processamento. A obtenção de um GAD para uma aplicação real, contudo, não é uma questão simples. O conhecimento necessário sobre as tarefas da aplicação e as comunicações entre elas, considerando ciclos de transmissão, dificulta a elaboração de um grafo apropriado. Particularmente, programas MPI, os quais representam uma parcela significativa das aplicações paralelas, apresentam um modelo de comunicação cíclico entre o nó master e os nós de processamento. Esse comportamento impede a utilização de muitos algoritmos de escalonamento devido ao fato de eles percorrerem o grafo recursivamente para priorizar as tarefas. Nesse sentido, esse trabalho apresenta um mecanismo para a criação automática de GADs para aplicações MPI reais originalmente desenvolvidas para clusters homogêneos. Para essa implementação, aplicações são monitoradas durante a execução em um cluster e os dados coletados são usados para a elaboração de um GADs apropriados. Dependências de dados são identificadas e ciclos existentes entre as tarefas são eliminados. O algoritmo de escalonamento HEFT é usado para avaliar o modelo de aplicação e o escalonamento obtido é então automaticamente convertido em um arquivo RSL (Resource Specification Language) para execução em um grid com Globus. Resultados de execuções de aplicações reais e simulações demonstram que o uso de grid pode ser vantajoso.
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Simulador eletromagnético em um ambiente de grades computacionais / Eletromagnetic simulator in a grid computing environment

Freitas, Igor José Ferreira de 09 August 2010 (has links)
Orientadores: Hugo Enrique Hernández-Figueroa, Marli de Freitas Gomes Hernández / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Engenharia Elétrica e de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-17T00:31:12Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Freitas_IgorJoseFerreirade_M.pdf: 3550643 bytes, checksum: 47f42ac96909895e588fe72ae8cc8449 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010 / Resumo: Este trabalho tem por objetivo desenvolver os estágios de Pré e Pós-processamento de um pacote de simulação eletromagnética, batizado de SSAR-BR, e também de um ambiente de grades computacionais que permitirá a resolução de problemas eletromagnéticos de grande porte. O estágio de processamento já foi desenvolvido como parte de uma tese de doutorado pertencente ao grupo de pesquisa deste departamento e se baseia no método das Diferenças Finitas no Domínio do Tempo (FDTD). O estágio de Pré-Processamento envolve um modelador básico de duas e três dimensões para modelagem geométrica de dispositivos de telecomunicações (fontes radiantes, terminais móveis e antenas) e modelos biológicos (partes do corpo humano e cobaias). O estágio de Pós-Processamento, por outro lado, permite visualizar os resultados das simulações eletromagnéticas executadas, através de gráficos em duas e três dimensões. Estes dois estágios já foram desenvolvidos nas linguagens Java e OpenGL. O ambiente computacional paralelo está baseado no conceito de Grade Computacional (do inglês Grid), isto é, numa infra-estrutura de software e hardware que visa à integração de recursos computacionais geograficamente dispersos, interconectados através de uma rede, com o objetivo de compartilhar tais recursos sob determinadas políticas de acesso, formando um ambiente computacional escalável, de baixo custo e de alto desempenho. A camada de software localizada entre a aplicação do usuário e o sistema operacional responsável por controlar o acesso aos recursos da Grade Computacional, é chamada de middleware. O middleware adotado é o UNICORE 6, que se caracteriza por fornecer acesso aos recursos da Grade Computacional de forma transparente e segura, seguindo padrões abertos definidos pela comunidade OGF (Open Grid Forum / Abstract: The aim of this work is to develop the Pre and Post-Processing stages from an electromagnetic simulation suite, called SSAR-BR, and also a grid computational environment, which permits the execution of large electromagnetic problems. The processing stage, based in the Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) method, has been already developed as part of a doctorate thesis made by a researcher from this department. The Pre-processing stage involves a fundamental modeling tool capable to model telecommunications devices (radiant sources, mobile terminals and antennas) and biological models (human body parts and guinea-pig). On the other hand, the Post-Processing stage permits visualizing the electromagnetic simulations results in a two and three dimensions way. Both stages were developed in Java and OpenGL languages. The parallel computational environment is based on Grid Computing paradigm which consists in software and hardware infra-structure that integrates dispersed computational resources interconnected across a network. Its purpose is to share such resources under an access control policy and establishing a scalable, low-cost and high performance computational environment. The middleware is the layer between the user and operation systems responsible to manage the Grid resources and, for this work, the UNICORE 6 was adopted. The mainly reasons were its safe and transparent access to the distributed environment and, most important, it follows the open patterns from OGF (Open Grid Forum) community / Mestrado / Telecomunicações e Telemática / Mestre em Engenharia Elétrica
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Algoritmos para problemas de escalonamento em grades / Algorithms for scheduling problems in grid

Peixoto, Robson Roberto Souza 18 August 2018 (has links)
Orientador: Eduardo Candido Xavier / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-18T10:12:53Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Peixoto_RobsonRobertoSouza_M.pdf: 1268588 bytes, checksum: ff8a093aa133696dcd5bbe31bc4d6e78 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011 / Resumo: Nesta dissertação estudamos algoritmos para resolver problemas de escalonamento de tarefas em grades computacionais. Dado um conjunto de tarefas submetidas a uma grade computacional, deve-se definir em quais recursos essas tarefas serão executadas. Algoritmos de escalonamento são empregados com o objetivo de minimizar o tempo necessário para executar todas as tarefas (makespan) que foram submetidas. Nosso foco é estudar os atuais algoritmos de escalonamento usados em grades computacionais e comparar estes algoritmos. Nesta dissertação apresentamos algoritmos onlines, aproximados e heurísticas para o problema. Como resultados novos, provamos fatores de aproximação para o algoritmo RR quando utilizado para resolver os problemas R; sit|Tj|Cmax, R; sit|Tj|TPCC, R; sit|Tj = L| Cmax e R; sit|Tj = L|TPCC é justo. Por fim, definimos uma interface que adiciona replicação de tarefas a qualquer algoritmo de escalonamento, onde nós mostramos a aproximação desta interface, e apresentamos uma comparação via simulação dos algoritmos sem e com replicação. Nossas simulações mostram que, com a utilização de replicação, houve a redução no makespan de até 80% para o algoritmo Min-min. Nas nossas análises também fazemos uso da métrica RTPCC que calcula exatamente a quantidade de instruções que foram usadas para executar todas as tarefas / Abstract: In this dissertation, we studied algorithms to solve task scheduling problems in computational grids. Given a task set that was submitted to a computational grid, the problem is to define in which resources these tasks will be executed and the order they will be executed. Scheduling algorithms are used in order to minimize the time required to execute all tasks (makespan). We studied the most recent scheduling algorithms proposed to be used in computational grids, and then compare them using simulations. In this dissertation we also present approximate algorithms and new heuristics for the problem. As new results, we proved approximation factors to the RR algorithm when applied to solve the problems R; sit|Tj|Cmax, R; sit|Tj|TPCC, R; sit|Tj = L| Cmax and R; sit|Tj = L|TPCC. Finally, we defined an interface that adds task replication capability to any scheduling algorithm. We then show approximation results for algorithms using this interface, and present a comparison of well know algorithms with and without replication. This comparison is done via simulation. Our simulations show that, with replication, there was up to 80% of reduction in the makespan to some algorithms like the Min-min / Mestrado / Teoria da Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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Uma heuristica de agrupamento de caminhos para escalonamento de tarefas em grades computacionais

Bittencourt, Luiz Fernando, 1981- 15 March 2006 (has links)
Orientador: Edmundo Roberto Mauro Madeira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Computação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-06T12:20:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bittencourt_LuizFernando_M.pdf: 1217558 bytes, checksum: dcbdeb1eaf538ae17a83304451a73126 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006 / Resumo: Uma grade computacional é um sistema heterogêneo colaborativo, geograficamente distribuído, multi-institucional e dinâmico, onde qualquer recurso computacional ligado a uma rede, local ou não, é um potencial colaborador. Grades computacionais são atualmente um grande foco de estudos relacionados à execução de aplicações paralelas, tanto aquelas que demandam grande poder computacional quanto aquelas que se adaptam bem a ambientes distribuídos. Como os recursos de uma grade pertencem a vários domínios administrativos diferentes com políticas diferentes, cada recurso tem autonomia para participar ou deixar de participar da grade em qualquer momento. Essa característica dinâmica e a heterogeneidade tornam o escalonamento de aplicações, a gerência de recursos e a tolerância a falhas grandes desafios nesses sistemas. Particularmente, o escalonamento desempenha um papel de suma importância, pois é determinante no tempo de execução das aplicações. O escalonamento de tarefas é um problema NP-Completo [6], o que levou ao desenvolvimento de uma heurística para o problema de otimização associado. Neste trabalho apresentamos um escalonador de tarefas em grades computacionais baseado no Xavantes [3], um middleware que oferece suporte a execução de tarefas dependentes através de estruturas de controle hierárquicas chamadas controladores. O algoritmo desenvolvido, chamado de Path Clustering Heuristic (PCH), agrupa as tarefas com o objetivo de minimizar a comunicação entre os controladores e as tarefas, diminuindo o tempo de execução total do processo / Abstract: A computational grid is a collaborative heterogeneous, geographically distributed, multiinstitutional and dynamic system, where any computational resource with a network connection, local or remote, is a potential collaborator. In computational grids, problems related to the execution of parallel applications, those which need a lot of computational power, as well as those which fit well in distributed environments, are wide studied nowadays. As the grid resources belong to various different administrative domains with different policies, each resource has the autonomy to participate or leave the grid at any time. These dynamic and heterogeneous characteristics make the application scheduling, the resource management and the fault tolerance relevant issues on these systems. Particularly, the scheduler plays an important role, since it is determinative in the execution time of an application. The task scheduling problem is NP-Complete [6], what led to the development of a heuristic for the associated optimization problem. In this work we present a task scheduler for a computational grid based on Xavantes [3], a middleware that supports dependent task execution through control structures called controllers. The developed algorithm, called Path Clustering Heuristic (PCH), clusterizes tasks aiming to minimize the communication between controllers and tasks, reducing the process execution time / Mestrado / Sistemas de Computação / Mestre em Ciência da Computação
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MAG: uma grade computacional baseada em agentes móveis / MAG: a based computational grating in agents you move

Lopes, Rafael Fernandes 13 January 2006 (has links)
Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-17T14:52:33Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rafael Fernandes Lopes.pdf: 4191329 bytes, checksum: d7582da9cb0e7c9fbb1def0451444863 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-01-13 / In recent years, Grid computing has emerged as a promising alternative to the integration and sharing of multi-institutional resources. However, constructing a Grid middleware is a complex task. Developers must address several design and implementation challenges, such as: e±cient management and allocation of distributed resources, dynamic task scheduling, high scalability and heterogeneity, fault tolerance, e±cient mechanisms for collaborative communication among Grid nodes, and security issues. MAG (Mobile Agents for Grid Computing Environments) explores the mobile agent technology as a way to overcome several of these challenges. MAG middleware executes Grid applications by dynamically loading the application code into a mobile agent. The MAG agent can be dynamically reallocated among Grid nodes through a transparent migration mechanism called MAG/Brakes, as a way to provide load balancing and support for non-dedicated nodes. MAG middleware also includes mechanisms for providing application fault tolerance, an essential characteristic for Grid environments. We make extensive use of the agent paradigm to design and implement MAG components, forming a multi-agent infrastructure for computational Grids. This master thesis describes MAG and MAG/Brakes architecture, implementation and performance issues. / Nos ultimos anos, a computação em grade tem emergido como uma promissora alternativa para a integração e compartilhamento de recursos multi-institucionais. Entretanto, a construçãoo de um middleware de grade é uma tarefa complexa. Desenvolvedores devem lidar com vários desafios de projeto e implementação, como: gerenciamento e alocação suficiente de recursos distribuidos, escalonamento dinâmico de tarefas, alta escalabilidade e heterogeneidade, tolerância a falhas, mecanismos suficientes para a comunicação colaborativa entre nós da grade e aspectos de segurança; O MAG (Mobile Agents for Grid Computing Environments) explora a tecnologia de agentes móveis como uma forma de superar vários destes desafios. O middleware MAG executa as aplicações da grade carregando dinamicamente o código da aplicação no agente movel. O agente do MAG pode ser realocado dinamicamente entre nós da grade através de um mecanismo de migração transparente chamado MAG/Brakes, como uma forma de prover balanceamento de carga e suporte para nós não dedicados. O middleware MAG também inclui mecanismos para prover tolerância a falhas de aplicações, uma caracteristica essencial para ambientes de grade. O paradigma de agentes foi extensivamente utilizado para projetar e implementar os componentes do MAG, formando uma infraestrutura multiagente para grades computacionais. Esta dissertação de mestrado descreve a arquitetura, implementação e aspectos de desempenho do MAG e do MAG/Brakes.
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\"Armazenamento distribuído de dados e checkpointing de aplicações paralelas em grades oportunistas\" / Distributed data storage and checkpointing of parallel applications in opportunistic grids

Raphael Yokoingawa de Camargo 04 May 2007 (has links)
Grades computacionais oportunistas utilizam recursos ociosos de máquinas compartilhadas para executar aplicações que necessitam de um alto poder computacional e/ou trabalham com grandes quantidades de dados. Mas a execução de aplicações paralelas computacionalmente intensivas em ambientes dinâmicos e heterogêneos, como grades computacionais oportunistas, é uma tarefa difícil. Máquinas podem falhar, ficar inacessíveis ou passar de ociosas para ocupadas inesperadamente, comprometendo a execução de aplicações. Um mecanismo de tolerância a falhas que dê suporte a arquiteturas heterogêneas é um importante requisito para estes sistemas. Neste trabalho, analisamos, implementamos e avaliamos um mecanismo de tolerância a falhas baseado em checkpointing para aplicações paralelas em grades computacionais oportunistas. Este mecanismo permite o monitoramento de execuções e a migração de aplicações entre nós heterogêneos da grade. Mas além da execução, é preciso gerenciar e armazenar os dados gerados e utilizados por estas aplicações. Desejamos uma infra-estrutura de armazenamento de dados de baixo custo e que utilize o espaço livre em disco de máquinas compartilhadas da grade. Devemos utilizar somente os ciclos ociosos destas máquinas para armazenar e recuperar dados, de modo que um sistema de armazenamento distribuído que as utilize deve ser redundante e tolerante a falhas. Para resolver o problema do armazenamento de dados em grades oportunistas, projetamos, implementamos e avaliamos o middleware OppStore. Este middleware provê armazenamento distribuído e confiável de dados, que podem ser acessados de qualquer máquina da grade. As máquinas são organizadas em aglomerados, que são conectados por uma rede peer-to-peer auto-organizável e tolerante a falhas. Dados são codificados em fragmentos redundantes antes de serem armazenados, de modo que arquivos podem ser reconstruídos utilizando apenas um subconjunto destes fragmentos. Finalmente, para lidar com a heterogeneidade dos recursos, desenvolvemos uma extensão ao protocolo de roteamento em redes peer-to-peer Pastry. Esta extensão adiciona balanceamento de carga e suporte à heterogeneidade de máquinas ao protocolo Pastry. / Opportunistic computational grids use idle resources from shared machines to execute applications that need large amounts of computational power and/or deal with large amounts of data. But executing computationally intensive parallel applications in dynamic and heterogeneous environments, such as opportunistic grids, is a daunting task. Machines may fail, become inaccessible, or change from idle to occupied unexpectedly, compromising the application execution. A fault tolerance mechanism that supports heterogeneous architectures is an important requisite for such systems. In this work, we analyze, implement and evaluate a checkpointing-based fault tolerance mechanism for parallel applications running on opportunistic grids. The mechanism monitors application execution and allows the migration of applications between heterogeneous nodes of the grid. But besides application execution, it is necessary to manage data generated and used by those applications. We want a low cost data storage infrastructure that utilizes the unused disk space of grid shared machines. The system should use the machines to store and recover data only during their idle periods, requiring the system to be redundant and fault-tolerant. To solve the data storage problem in opportunistic grids, we designed, implemented and evaluated the OppStore middleware. This middleware provides reliable distributed storage for application data, which can be accessed from any machine in the grid. The machines are organized in clusters, connected by a self-organizing and fault-tolerant peer-to-peer network. During storage, data is codified into redundant fragments, allowing the reconstruction of the original file using only a subset of those fragments. Finally, to deal with resource heterogeneity, we developed an extension to the Pastry peer-to-peer routing substrate, enabling heterogeneity-aware load-balancing message routing.
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CircularTrip and ArcTrip:effective grid access methods for continuous spatial queries.

Cheema, Muhammad Aamir, Computer Science & Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, UNSW January 2007 (has links)
A k nearest neighbor query q retrieves k objects that lie closest to the query point q among a given set of objects P. With the availability of inexpensive location aware mobile devices, the continuous monitoring of such queries has gained lot of attention and many methods have been proposed for continuously monitoring the kNNs in highly dynamic environment. Multiple continuous queries require real-time results and both the objects and queries issue frequent location updates. Most popular spatial index, R-tree, is not suitable for continuous monitoring of these queries due to its inefficiency in handling frequent updates. Recently, the interest of database community has been shifting towards using grid-based index for continuous queries due to its simplicity and efficient update handling. For kNN queries, the order in which cells of the grid are accessed is very important. In this research, we present two efficient and effective grid access methods, CircularTrip and ArcTrip, that ensure that the number of cells visited for any continuous kNN query is minimum. Our extensive experimental study demonstrates that CircularTrip-based continuous kNN algorithm outperforms existing approaches in terms of both efficiency and space requirement. Moreover, we show that CircularTrip and ArcTrip can be used for many other variants of nearest neighbor queries like constrained nearest neighbor queries, farthest neighbor queries and (k + m)-NN queries. All the algorithms presented for these queries preserve the properties that they visit minimum number of cells for each query and the space requirement is low. Our proposed techniques are flexible and efficient and can be used to answer any query that is hybrid of above mentioned queries. For example, our algorithms can easily be used to efficiently monitor a (k + m) farthest neighbor query in a constrained region with the flexibility that the spatial conditions that constrain the region can be changed by the user at any time.
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Master/worker parallel discrete event simulation

Park, Alfred John 16 December 2008 (has links)
The execution of parallel discrete event simulation across metacomputing infrastructures is examined. A master/worker architecture for parallel discrete event simulation is proposed providing robust executions under a dynamic set of services with system-level support for fault tolerance, semi-automated client-directed load balancing, portability across heterogeneous machines, and the ability to run codes on idle or time-sharing clients without significant interaction by users. Research questions and challenges associated with issues and limitations with the work distribution paradigm, targeted computational domain, performance metrics, and the intended class of applications to be used in this context are analyzed and discussed. A portable web services approach to master/worker parallel discrete event simulation is proposed and evaluated with subsequent optimizations to increase the efficiency of large-scale simulation execution through distributed master service design and intrinsic overhead reduction. New techniques for addressing challenges associated with optimistic parallel discrete event simulation across metacomputing such as rollbacks and message unsending with an inherently different computation paradigm utilizing master services and time windows are proposed and examined. Results indicate that a master/worker approach utilizing loosely coupled resources is a viable means for high throughput parallel discrete event simulation by enhancing existing computational capacity or providing alternate execution capability for less time-critical codes.

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