An automatic distributed simulation environment

  • Authors:
  • Sarita Mazzini Bruschi;Regina Helena Carlucci Santana;Marcos José Santana;Thais Souza Aiza

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil;Universidade de São Paulo (USP), São Carlos, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • WSC '04 Proceedings of the 36th conference on Winter simulation
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Developing a sequential simulation program is not an easy task. Developing a distributed simulation program is harder than a sequential one because it is necessary to deal with mapping physical processes into logical processes, communication and synchronization problems and learn another simulation language/library. In literature, several simulation environments can be found but the great number are for sequential simulation, not using all the advantages of a distributed/parallel platform. This paper presents ASDA, an automatic distributed simulation environment that aims at providing several possibilities to users developing a distributed simulation. The automatic word can be understood in three diferent ways: the environment automatically generates a distributed simulation program code; the environment can automatically choose one distributed simulation approach; and the environment can automatically convert a sequential simulation program into a distributed simulation program using the MRIP (Multiple Replication in Parallel) approach.