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This paper summaries experiences designing and developing a parallel/distributed simulator for existing models of forest fire propagation using PVM. The methodology used to parallelise the application is described. Results obtained for the parallelisation on different platforms are presented: clusters of SUN workstations and PCs, and one parallel machine (Parsytec CC) with different internal node interconnections. The studies present several measurements of performance & scalability of the proposed solution for this forest fire application.
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Jorba, J., Margalef, T., Luque, E. (2001). Simulation of Forest Fire Propagation on Parallel & Distributed PVM Platforms. In: Cotronis, Y., Dongarra, J. (eds) Recent Advances in Parallel Virtual Machine and Message Passing Interface. EuroPVM/MPI 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2131. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45417-9_52
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