Adaptation, deployment and evaluation of a railway simulator in cloud environments

Caíno Lores, Silvina

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Adaptation, deployment and evaluation of a railway simulator in cloud environments

dc.contributor.advisor	García Fernández, Alberto
dc.contributor.author	Caíno Lores, Silvina
dc.contributor.departamento	UC3M. Departamento de Informática	es
dc.date.accessioned	2018-02-02T13:34:58Z
dc.date.available	2018-02-02T13:34:58Z
dc.date.issued	2014-06
dc.date.submitted	2014-07-14
dc.description.abstract	Many scientific areas make extensive use of computer simulations to study realworld processes. As they become more complex and resource-intensive, traditional programming paradigms running on supercomputers have shown to be limited by their hardware resources. The Cloud and its elastic nature has been increasingly seen as a valid alternative for simulation execution, as it aims to provide virtually infinite resources, thus unlimited scalability. In order to bene t from this, simulators must be adapted to this paradigm since cloud migration tends to add virtualization and communication overhead. This work has the main objective of migrating a power consumption railway simulator to the Cloud, with minimal impact in the original code and preserving performance. We propose a data-centric adaptation based in MapReduce to distribute the simulation load across several nodes while minimising data transmission. We deployed our solution on an Amazon EC2 virtual cluster and measured its performance. We did the same in in our local cluster to compare the solution's performance against the original application when the Cloud's overhead is not present. Our tests show that the resulting application is highly scalable and shows a better overall performance regarding the original simulator in both environments. This document summarises the author's work during the whole adaptation development process .	es
dc.description.degree	Ingeniería Informática	es
dc.format.mimetype	application/pdf
dc.identifier.uri	https://hdl.handle.net/10016/26192
dc.language.iso	eng	es
dc.rights	Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 3.0 España	*
dc.rights.accessRights	open access	es
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/	*
dc.subject.eciencia	Informática	es
dc.subject.other	Railway simulator	es
dc.subject.other	Cloud computing	es
dc.subject.other	Simulation	es
dc.title	Adaptation, deployment and evaluation of a railway simulator in cloud environments	es
dc.type	bachelor thesis	*
dspace.entity.type	Publication