Title :
WARPED: a time warp simulation kernel for analysis and application development
Author :
Martin, Dale E. ; McBrayer, Timothy J. ; Wilsey, Philip A.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of ECECS, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Abstract :
WARPED is a publically-available time warp simulation kernel for experimentation and application development. The kernel defines a standard interface to the application developer and is designed to provide a highly configurable environment for the integration of time warp optimizations. It is written in C++, uses the MPI (Message Passing Interface) standard and shared memory for communication, and executes on a variety of platforms including a network of SUN workstations, a SUN SMP workstation, the IBM SP1/SP2 multiprocessors, the Intel Paragon and IBM-compatible PCs running Linux. WARPED is distributed with several applications and includes a sequential kernel implementation for comparative analysis. The kernel supports LP (logical process) clustering, various time warp algorithms and several optimizations that dynamically adjust simulation parameters
Keywords :
application program interfaces; development systems; discrete event simulation; message passing; microcomputer applications; optimisation; parallel algorithms; shared memory systems; synchronisation; time warp simulation; C++; IBM SP1/SP2 multiprocessors; IBM compatible PCs; Intel Paragon; Linux; MPI standard; Message Passing Interface; SUN SMP workstation; SUN workstation network; WARPED; application development; comparative analysis; configurable environment; dynamic simulation parameter adjustment; logical process clustering; sequential kernel implementation; shared memory; time warp optimizations; time warp simulation kernel; Communication standards; Design optimization; Kernel; Linux; Message passing; Personal communication networks; Standards development; Sun; Time warp simulation; Workstations;
Conference_Titel :
System Sciences, 1996., Proceedings of the Twenty-Ninth Hawaii International Conference on ,
Conference_Location :
Wailea, HI
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7324-9
DOI :
10.1109/HICSS.1996.495485
