choice
(choice)
May 1, 2009, 11:34pm
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an then found a paper on it!
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1111009
could use this for rendering or other processes maybe?
Johann
(Johann)
May 2, 2009, 2:09am
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at first this suggested to me that yes, this technique (or rather set of techniques, as transitory state registers and multiple computation grids are usually required to properly implement fluid queues) could be used to not just improve inter-plugin communications, but also allow much better use of multicore processing environments:
We consider priority fluid queueing systems where high-priority class has strict priority access to service. Sample path analysis tools, such as Poisson counter driven stochastic differential equation, are employed to study system queueing behavior in steady state. We are able to obtain various analytical results for different fluid traffic models and system configurations. Those results can be used as a general rule of thumb in buffer dimensioning and other traffic engineering issues.
HOWEVER:
Motivated by the scale and complexity of simulating large-scale networks, recent research has focused on hybrid fluid/packet simulators, where fluid models are combined with packet models in order to reduce simulation complexity as well as to track dynamics of end-sources accurately. However, these simulators still need to track the queuing dynamics of network routers, leading to considerable simulation complexity in a large-scale network model. In this paper, we propose a new hybrid simulator – FluNet – where queueing dynamics are not tracked, but instead, an equivalent rate-based model is used. The FluNet simulator is predicated on a fast-queueing regime at bottleneck routers, where the queue length fluctuates on a faster time-scale than end systems. This allows us to simulate large-scale systems, where the simulation “time step-size” is governed only by the time-scale of the end-systems, and not by that of the intermediate routers; whereas a queue-tracking based fluid simulator would require decreasingly smaller step-sizes as the system scale size increases.
So, I’m not sure.