title: Suppressing roughness of virtual times in parallel discrete-event simulations.
abstract: In a parallel discrete-event simulation (PDES) scheme, tasks are distributed among processing elements (PEs) whose progress is controlled by a synchronization scheme. For lattice systems with short-range interactions, the progress of the conservative PDES scheme is governed by the Kardar-Parisi-Zhang equation from the theory of nonequilibrium surface growth. Although the simulated (virtual) times of the PEs progress at a nonzero rate, their standard deviation (spread) diverges with the number of PEs, hindering efficient data collection. We show that weak random interactions among the PEs can make this spread nondivergent. The PEs then progress at a nonzero, near-uniform rate without requiring global synchronizations.
authors.affiliation: Department of Physics, Applied Physics, and Astronomy, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 110 8th Street, Troy, NY 12180, USA. korniss@rpi.edu
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Korniss
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Novotny
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Guclu
authors.forename: Z
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Toroczkai
authors.forename: P A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Rikvold