ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS)
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Parallel discrete event simulation
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on simulation
Performance bounds on parallel self-initiating discrete-event simulations
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
A study of time warp rollback mechanisms
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Design and Evaluation of the Rollback Chip: Special Purpose Hardware for Time Warp
IEEE Transactions on Computers
Asynchronous algorithms for the parallel simulation of event-driven dynamical systems
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
SOSP '95 Proceedings of the fifteenth ACM symposium on Operating systems principles
Automatic incremental state saving
PADS '96 Proceedings of the tenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
An approach towards distributed simulation of timed petri nets
WSC' 90 Proceedings of the 22nd conference on Winter simulation
Systems with Low Distributed Simulation Overhead
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
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A special purpose simulation engine based on the Time Warp mechanism is proposed to attack large-scale discrete event simulation problems. A key component of this engine is the rollback chip, a hardware component that efficiently implements state saving and rollback functions in Time Warp. The algorithms implemented by the rollback chip are described, as well as mechanisms that allow efficient implementation. Results of simulation studies are presented that show that the rollback chip can virtually eliminate the state saving overhead that plagues current software implementations of Time Warp.