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In this paper we describe CAMEL, an interactive parallel environment based on the cellular automata model. CAMEL is an environment designed to support the development of high performance applications in science and engineering. It offers the computing power of a highly parallel computer, hiding the architecture issues from a user. The system can be used both as a tool to model dynamic complex phenomena and as a computational model for parallel processing. By CAMEL a user might write programs to describe the actions of thousands of simple active agents, then observe the global complex evolution that arise from all the local interactions. The paper presents the programming environment and a significant application in the area of soil decontamination.
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Di Gregorio, S., Rongo, R., Spataro, W., Spezzano, G., Talia, D. (1996). A parallel cellular environment for high performance scientific computing. In: Liddell, H., Colbrook, A., Hertzberger, B., Sloot, P. (eds) High-Performance Computing and Networking. HPCN-Europe 1996. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1067. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-61142-8_591
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