Simulation) • Flame GPU – Flexible Large-scale Agent Modelling Environment on the GPU

• System Dynamics (Forrester, 1961) – How the separate parts of a system operate as a whole unit over time – Very fast at all population sizes • Agent Based Modelling (Macal, 2008) – How individual autonomous entities work together to bring about the change in a system over time – Exponentially slower as population size increases Monday, January 27, 2014 3 Performance improvements • Increase the amount of available resources on the workstation (e.g. increase memory, faster CPU and SSD for storage rather than traditional hard disk drives) • Introduce highly parallel design (e.g. using distributed workstations, multiple processors or GPUs) • Simplify model (e.g. scale down the population size, simplify network topology)