Abstract-Identifying intersections among a set of ddimensional rectangular regions (d-rectangles) is a common problem in many simulation and modeling applications. Since algorithms for computing intersections over a large number of regions can be computationally demanding, an obvious solution is to take advantage of the multiprocessing capabilities of modern multicore processors. Unfortunately, many solutions employed for the Data Distribution Management service of the High Level Architecture are either inefficient, or can only partially be parallelized. In this paper we propose the Interval Tree Matching (ITM) algorithm for computing intersections among d-rectangles. ITM is based on a simple Interval Tree data structure, and exhibits an embarrassingly parallel structure. We implement the ITM algorithm, and compare its sequential performance with two widely used solutions (brute force and sort-based matching). We also analyze the scalability of ITM on shared-memory multicore processors. The results show that the sequential implementation of ITM is competitive with sort-based matching; moreover, the parallel implementation provides good speedup on multicore processors.
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A Parallel Data Distribution Management Algorithm
2013 IEEE/ACM 17th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
2013 IEEE/ACM 17th International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications
Computer Science