An Efficient Dynamic Load Balancing Scheme for Distributed Simulations on a Grid Infrastructure

• Published in: 2008 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real-Time Applications pp. 61 - 68
• Main Authors: El Ajaltouni, E., Boukerche, A., Ming Zhang
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 01.10.2008
• Subjects: Computational modeling; Coupled mode analysis; Distributed computing; Grid computing; Laboratories; Large-scale systems; Load management; Monitoring; Runtime environment; Service oriented architecture
• ISBN: 0769534252; 9780769534251
• ISSN: 1550-6525
• DOI: 10.1109/DS-RT.2008.38

Dynamic load balancing is a key factor in achieving high performance for large scale distributed simulations on grid infrastructures. In a grid environment, the available resources and the simulationpsilas computation and communication behavior may experience run-time critical imbalances. Consequently, an initial static partitioning should be combined with a dynamic load balancing scheme to ensure the high performance of the distributed simulation. In this paper, we propose a novel dynamic load balancing scheme for distributed simulations on a grid infrastructure. Our scheme is composed of an on-line network analyzing service coupled with monitoring agents and a run-time model repartitioning service. We present a hierarchical scalable adaptive JXTA service based scheme and demonstrate through simulation experiments that our proposed scheme exhibits better performance in terms of the simulation execution time.