Title :
Software design concepts of a distributed simulation kernel
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Birmingham, UK
Abstract :
The technologies that enable and facilitate distributed simulation seam to have reached their maturity. If, however, the most significant concepts in distributed simulation, namely interest management, synchronisation and load balancing are jointly evaluated by the kernel, then the kernel can perform even better and thus the simulation time can improve further. In this contribution we present the first results of the design of a distributed simulation kernel that combines these aspects and that will be able to dynamically adapt at runtime to the simulation behaviour of any user model.
Keywords :
digital simulation; distributed processing; resource allocation; software engineering; distributed simulation kernel; load balancing; object-oriented design; software design; synchronisation; Aggregates; Computational modeling; Computer science; Computer simulation; Kernel; Load management; Performance evaluation; Protocols; Runtime; Software design;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Processing, 2004. Proceedings. 12th Euromicro Conference on
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2083-9
DOI :
10.1109/EMPDP.2004.1271424