Distributed simulation: No special tools required

Author

Paterra, F. ; Overstreet, C. Michael ; Maly, Kurt

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Old Dominion Univ., Norfolk, VA, USA

fYear

1990

fDate

9-12 Dec 1990

Firstpage

423

Lastpage

427

Abstract

A toolkit of C language functions that can be linked with SIMSCRIPT programs to provide the data communication primitives necessary for distributed simulation is presented. This toolkit can be used to develop distributed simulation applications without having to invest in new environments or training. The toolkit is composed of 650 lines of C code and requires about 50 lines of additional SIMSCRIPT code per server/receiver pair to be added to the simulation model. The user need only be concerned with three C function calls and two SIMSCRIPT routines; thus the complexity of the simulation program is no significantly affected. The use of these tools is most likely to be beneficial in models that can be decomposed into components in which information flow among processors is not cyclic

Keywords

C language; digital simulation; distributed processing; C code; C language functions; SIMSCRIPT programs; complexity; data communication primitives; distributed simulation; toolkit; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Data communication; Local area networks; Object oriented modeling; Production; Runtime; Testing; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Simulation Conference, 1990. Proceedings., Winter

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

Print_ISBN

0-911801-72-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WSC.1990.129554

Filename

129554