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The Virtual Marathon: Parallel Computing Supports Crowd Simulations
July/August 2009 (vol. 29 no. 4)
pp. 26-33
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Erdal Yilmaz, Veysi Isler, Yasemin Yardimci Çetin, "The Virtual Marathon: Parallel Computing Supports Crowd Simulations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 26-33, July/August, 2009.
 
 
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@article{ 10.1109/MCG.2009.77,
author = {Erdal Yilmaz and Veysi Isler and Yasemin Yardimci Çetin},
title = {The Virtual Marathon: Parallel Computing Supports Crowd Simulations},
journal ={IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications},
volume = {29},
number = {4},
issn = {0272-1716},
year = {2009},
pages = {26-33},
doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MCG.2009.77},
publisher = {IEEE Computer Society},
address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA},
}
 
 
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Erdal Yilmaz, Middle East Technical University
Veysi Isler, Middle East Technical University
Yasemin Yardimci Çetin, Middle East Technical University
To be realistic, an urban model must include appropriate numbers of pedestrians, vehicles, and other dynamic entities. Using a parallelcomputing architecture, researchers simulated a marathon with more than a million participants. To simulate participant behavior, they used fuzzy logic on a GPU to perform millions of inferences in real time.

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Index Terms:
virtual, populace, parallel, simulation
Citation:
Erdal Yilmaz, Veysi Isler, Yasemin Yardimci Çetin, "The Virtual Marathon: Parallel Computing Supports Crowd Simulations," IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 26-33, July/Aug. 2009, doi:10.1109/MCG.2009.77
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