An Implementation of the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework on the Cray MTA

Authors:
Robert R. Henry;Simon H. Kahan;Jason Liu;David M. Nicol
Affiliations:
Cray, Inc., 411 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA;Cray, Inc., 411 1st Ave S, Seattle, WA;Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanobrt, NH;Institute for Security Technology Studies, Dartmouth College, Hanobrt, NH
Venue:
Proceedings of the seventeenth workshop on Parallel and distributed simulation
Year:
2003

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Abstract

Large-scale parallel discrete event simulations of massivenetworks, such as the Internet, are "Grand Challenge"problems: packet level simulation of even a small fraction ofthe Internet would consume the resources of the most powerfulcomputers available. We reimplement the SSF ScalableSimulation Framework so we can run large-scale networksimulations originally written for DaSSF. Our implementation,CraySSF, is designed for the Cray-MTA, a multithreadedsupercomputer architecture developed specificallyto address large-scale computations of the kind that arenot easily distributed. This paper describes the architecture,implementation issues, and preliminary performanceresults on a variety of (stock) serial and parallel architectures.