"Dynamic Load Balancing for Simulations of Biological Aging"
Article by Frank Meisgen, available as BibTeX Source, postscript file and compressed postscript file.
Informatik, Universität zu Köln
Preprint Key:	zpr97-269
Keywords:	biological aging, dynamic load balancing, heterogeneous system, simulation
MSC codes:	68U20, 68W10
This article was published in June 1997 in the journal "International Journal of Modern Physics C", volume 8, number 269, pages 575--582.
Abstract:	The efficient usage of parallel computers and workstation clusters for biologically motivated simulations depends first of all on a dynamic redistribution of the workload. For the development of a parallel algorithm for the Penna model of aging we have used a dynamic load balancing library, called PLB. It turns out that PLB manages a nearly balanced load situation during runtime taking only a low communication overhead. We compare different architectures like parallel computers and nondedicated heterogeneous networks, and give some results for large populations.