@InProceedings{Barnes13a,
  title =        "{E}xploring {GPGPU} {A}cceleration of {P}rocess-{O}riented {S}imulations",
  author=        "Barnes,  Frederick R. M. and Pressnell,  Thomas and Le Foll,  Brendan",
  editor=        "Welch, Peter H. and Barnes,  Frederick R. M. and Broenink,  Jan F. and Chalmers,  Kevin and Pedersen,  Jan Bækgaard and Sampson,  Adam T.",
  pages =        "249--262",
  booktitle=     "{C}ommunicating {P}rocess {A}rchitectures 2013",
  isbn=          "978-0-9565409-7-3",
  year=          "2013",
  month=         "nov",
  abstract=      "This paper reports on our experiences of using commodity
     GPUs to
speed-up the execution of fine-grained concurrent
     simulations.
Starting with an existing process-oriented
     \textquotedblboids\textquotedbl simulation, we
explore a
     variety of techniques aimed at improving
     performance,
gradually refactoring the original code. 
     Successive improvements lead
to a 10-fold improvement in
     performance, which we believe can still be
improved upon,
     allowing us to explore simulations with larger numbers
of
     agents (30,000 rather than 2,000) interactively and
     without
significant performance degradation."
}