EPIS: a grid platform to ease and optimize multi-agent simulators running

Eric Blanchart (1) , Christophe Cambier (2) , Clive Canape (2) , Benoit Gaudou (3) , The Nhan Ho (2) , Tuong Vinh Ho (2) , Christophe Lang (4) , Fabien Michel (5) , Nicolas Marilleau (2) , Laurent Philippe (4)

1 UMR Eco&Sols - Ecologie fonctionnelle et biogéochimie des sols et des agro-écosystèmes
2 UMMISCO - Unité de modélisation mathématique et informatique des systèmes complexes [Bondy]
3 IRIT-SMAC - Systèmes Multi-Agents Coopératifs
4 FEMTO-ST - Franche-Comté Électronique Mécanique, Thermique et Optique - Sciences et Technologies (UMR 6174)
5 SMILE - Système Multi-agent, Interaction, Langage, Evolution

This paper presents the work done during the first year of the EPIS project. This project deals with the process of conductingmultiple and parallelmulti agents-based simulations (MABS) on a cluster or a grid in order to generate sufficient data for scientific use (e.g. in the case of a sensibility analysis of a simulation). We provide a new, general and user-friendly approach to marry MABS and High- Performance Computing (HPC). We, thus, propose a workflow and an associated HPC infrastructure. These two permit to easily deploy a lot of simulations on a cluster without any prior parallelizing work. The method wants to be as generic as possible: no particular MABS targeted, no overhead and HPC compliance work has to be done only once. Moreover the user is guided by a web interface that handles the workflow.

Mots clés: Distributed simulation; Parallelization; Multi-agent simulation; High- Performance Computing

Domaines: Système multi-agents [cs.MA]

Eric Blanchart, Christophe Cambier, Clive Canape, Benoit Gaudou, The Nhan Ho, et al.. EPIS: a grid platform to ease and optimize multi-agent simulators running. 9th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (PAAMS), Apr 2011, Salamanca, Spain. pp.129-134, ⟨10.1007/978-3-642-19875-5_17⟩. ⟨lirmm-00744257⟩