Multicore acceleration of Discrete Event System Specification systems

SIMULATION

Volumn 88, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 801-831

  Liu, Qi ^a   Wainer, Gabriel ^b  

^a IBM T J WATSON RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

cell processor; Discrete Event System Specification formalism; discrete event simulation; multicore computing

Indexed keywords

CELL PROCESSOR; COMPUTATIONAL KERNELS; DEVS SIMULATION; DISCRETE EVENT SYSTEM SPECIFICATION; DISCRETE EVENTS; HETEROGENEOUS MULTICORE; IBM CELLS; MULTI CORE; MULTI-CORE COMPUTING; PARALLEL DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATION; PERFORMANCE BOTTLENECKS; SHARED MEMORIES; TECHNICAL DETAILS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; SPECIFICATIONS;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 84863518922     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: 17413133     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549711412237     Document Type: Article

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