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DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Controlling outbreaks of infectious diseases such as pandemic=0Ainfluenza is a top public health priority.  EpiSimdemics is an=0Aimplementation of a scalable parallel algorithm to simulate the spread=0Aof contagion in large (10^8 individuals), realistic social contact=0Anetworks using individual-based models.  It includes a rich language=0Afor describing public policy and agent behavior. We describe=0ACharmSimdemics and evaluate its performance on national scale=0Apopulations.  Charm++ is a machine independent parallel programming=0Asystem, providing high-level mechanisms and strategies to facilitate=0Athe task of developing highly complex parallel applications.  Our=0Adesign includes mapping of application entities to tasks and=0Aleveraging scalable communication, synchronization and load balancing=0Astrategies of Charm++. Our experimental results show that the Charm++=0Aversion achieves up to a 4-fold increase in strong scaling on 796 PEs=0Aand 3-fold increase in weak scaling on 512 PEs when compared to the=0AMPI version.
SUMMARY:Large-Scale Computational Epidemiology Modeling using Charm++
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