Over the past decade, techniques for parallel and distributed discrete-event simulation have been developed largely within the academic research community. The advent of cluster computing and desktop multiprocessors has now made it feasible to bring these results to bear on the simulation of large,
Generative coordination environments supporting parallel discrete event simulation
โ Scribed by Lorenzo Donatiello; Alessandro Fabbri
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 391 KB
- Volume
- 24
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0167-8191
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โฆ Synopsis
The utilization of coordination languages based on the generative paradigm for supporting the implementation of parallel discrete-event simulators is considered. A parallel simulation methodol-ลฝ . ogy called Active-Events ActE which is based on a sophisticated generative coordination model is proposed in order to make the task of designing a parallel simulator easier and to fully exploit the capabilities of coordination languages. An implementation of mechanisms of the coordination model by relying on the Linda coordination language is proposed. A simulator for queuing models based on ActE and developed in the coordination framework thus resulting is experimentally studied to assess the suitability of different mechanisms which implement the particular object retrieval criterion of the coordination model.
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