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  • Complex systems modeling

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  • Multi-agent simulation (MAS) is crucial for understanding complex systems, particularly disease spread like COVID-19.
  • While MAS effectively models COVID-19 transmission, its computational performance is often overlooked.
  • Inadequate CPU utilization and poor data locality hinder real-time analysis of disease spreading.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore and implement performance optimization strategies for multi-agent simulations of COVID-19.
  • To address challenges in CPU utilization and data locality within these simulations.
  • To enhance the speed and efficiency of COVID-19 transmission modeling.

Main Methods:

  • Developed a case-focused iteration algorithm to enhance data locality.
  • Proposed a hierarchical hash table for accelerating data-mapping and hash operations.
  • Implemented parallelization strategies utilizing multi-threading on CPUs.

Main Results:

  • The case-focused method reduced cache references and achieved significant speedup.
  • Hierarchical hash table further accelerated computation by 47%.
  • Parallel implementation with 20 threads resulted in substantial speedup.

Conclusions:

  • Proposed algorithmic and data structure optimizations significantly accelerate multi-agent simulation for COVID-19.
  • Improvements in data locality and multi-thread implementation are key to faster simulations.
  • These optimizations hold promise for real-time prevention strategies for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.