Distributed simulation: No special tools required

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