Distributed Platform for Large-Scale Agent-Based Simulations

Abstract. We describe a distributed architecture for situated largescale agent-based simulations with predominately local interactions. The approach, implemented in AglobeX Simulation platform, is based on a spatially partitioned simulated virtual environment and allocating a dedicated processing core to the environment simulation within each partition. In combination with dynamic load-balancing, such partitioning enables virtually unlimited scalability of the simulation platform. The approach has been used to extend the AgentFly air-traffic testbed to support simulation of a complete civilian air-traffic touching National Air-Space of United States. Thorough evaluation of the system has been performed, confirming that it can scale up to a very high number of complex agents operating simultaneously (thousands of aircraft) and determining the impact of different configurations of the simulation architecture on its overall performance.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: AGS
• Authors: David Sislák, Premysl Volf, Michal Jakob, Michal Pechoucek
• Keywords: AglobeX Simulation Platform, AGS 2009, Computer Graphics, Simulation, Simulation Platform