Parallelization and performance in simulation of disease spread by animal transfer
Fredrik Pasanen, Magnus Söderling · KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) · 2012
E. Coli O157:H7 is a verotoxin producing bacteria commonly spread from cattle to human through the intake of contaminated food or water. In order to simulate the spread of the disease a Monte-Carlo simulation model were developed which did not have an optimal run-time were developed by another author. In order to decrease the run time the implementation were optimized and parallelized by using profilers inorder to find the bottlenecks. This lead to an implementation that is about four times faster than the original.