Angewandte Mathematik Und Informatik Universit at Zu K Oln Dynamic Load Balancing for Simulations of Biological Aging Dynamic Load Balancing for Simulations of Biological Aging

The eecient usage of parallel computers and workstation clusters for biologically motivated simulations depends rst of all on a dynamic redistribution of the workload. For the development of a parallel algorithm for the Penna model of aging we have used a dynamic load balancing library , called PLB. It turns out that PLB manages a nearly balanced load situation during runtime taking only a low communication overhead. We compare diierent architectures like parallel computers and nondedicated heterogeneous networks, and give some results for large populations.