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Scalable Social Simulation : Investigating population-scale phenomena using commodity computing

<27>IEEE e-Science conference (sponsored by IEEE Computer Society´s Technical Committee for Scalable Computing) is the leading conference in the area of e-Science. The paper addresses the problem of utilising modern multi-core systems and scaling up agent-based human population simulations. We discuss the benefits of using large-scale commodity servers for the development of population-size simulation models compared to distributed systems such as compute clusters or grids traditionally used in e-Science applications. These benefits relate both to the performance of the simulation and the effort involved in successfully developing and deploying simulation models.