Abstract
MATLAB and its companion product Simulink are commonly used tools in systems modelling and other scientific disciplines. A cross-disciplinary integrated MATLAB model is used to study the overall performance of the proposed 50m optical and infrared telescope, Euro50. However the computational requirements of this kind of end-to-end simulation of the telescope's behaviour, exceeds the capability of an individual contemporary Personal Computer. By parallelizing the model, primarily on a functional basis, it can be implemented across a Beowulf cluster of generic PCs. This requires MATLAB to distribute in some way data and calculations to the cluster nodes and combine completed results. There have been a number of attempts to produce toolkits to allow MATLAB to be used in a parallel fashion. They have used a variety of techniques. Here we present findings from using some of these toolkits and proposed advances.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 71 |
| Pages (from-to) | 604-610 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering |
| Volume | 5497 |
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| Publication status | Published - 2004 |
| Event | Modeling and Systems Engineering for Astronomy - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 24 Jun 2004 → 25 Jun 2004 |
Keywords
- Euro50
- MATLAB
- MPI
- Parallel
- Simulation