Performance of a mixed shared/distributed memory parallel network simulator

Proceedings - Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation

Volumn 18, Issue , 2004, Pages 17-25

  Kiddle, Cameron ^a   Simmonds, Rob ^a   Unger, Brian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Conservative parallel discrete event simulation; Network simulation; Scalable network simulation

Indexed keywords

CONSERVATIVE PARALLEL DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION; NETWORK SIMULATION; SCALABLE NETWORK SIMULATION; SHARED-MEMORY COMPUTERS;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA STORAGE EQUIPMENT; INTERCONNECTION NETWORKS; PROGRAM PROCESSORS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SYNCHRONIZATION;

PARALLEL PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 3543104435     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/PADS.2004.1301281     Document Type: Conference Paper

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