Some parallel discrete event simulation (PDES) languages and systems

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PDES languages

APOSTLE

The best, of course, ...

• C. J. M. Booth and D. I. Bruce,
  ``Stack-free process-oriented simulation'',
  submitted to 11^th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'97), Burg Lockenhaus, Austria, 10-13 June 1997.
  Electronic versions available: abstract: ASCII [~3k]; full paper: PostScript [~192k].

• David Bruce,
  ``What makes a good domain-specific language? APOSTLE, and its approach to parallel discrete event simulation'',
  accepted for the SIGPLAN Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages, Paris, France, 18 January 1997.
  Electronic versions available: abstract: ASCII [~3k]; full paper: PostScript [~520k].

• Paul Wonnacott and David Bruce,
  ``The APOSTLE simulation language: granularity control and performance data'',
  pp. 114-123 in Proc. 10^th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS'96), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 22-24 May 1996.
  Electronic versions available: abstract: ASCII [~2k]; full paper: PostScript [~232k].

• Paul Wonnacott and David Bruce,
  ``A prototype implementation of APOSTLE, and its performance'',
  pp. 197-204 in Proc. 1995 Summer Computer Simulation Conference, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, 24-26 July 1995.
  Electronic versions available: PostScript (extended abstract [~67k], full paper [~168k]).

• Paul Wonnacott and David Bruce,
  ``The design of APOSTLE -- a high-level, object-oriented language for parallel and distributed discrete event simulation'',
  pp. 101-106 in Proc. Object-Oriented Simulation 1995 (part of the 1995 Western MultiConference on Computer Simulation), Las Vegas, Nevada, 16-18 January 1995.
  Electronic version available: PostScript [~136k].

Maisie / MOOSE / MVPE / etc.

• Rajive L. Bagrodia and Wen-Toh Liao,
  ``Maisie: A Language for the Design of Efficient Discrete-Event Simulations'',
  pp. 225-238 in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 20, No. 4, April 1994.
  Electronic version available: PostScript.

• J. Waldorf and R. Bagrodia,
  ``MOOSE: A Concurrent Object-Oriented Language for Simulation'',
  pp. 235-257 in International Journal in Computer Simulation, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1994.
  Electronic version available: PostScript [local copy].

• R. A. Meyer and R. L. Bagrodia,
  ``MVPE: Visual Design of Parallel Simulation Models'',
  pp. 227-230 in Proc. Fourth International Workshop on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems, San Jose, California, 1-3 February 1996.
  Electronic version available: PostScript [local copy].

ModSim / MODSIM / IMPORT / etc.

• Joel West and Alasdar Mullarney,
  ``ModSim: A language for distributed simulation'',
  pp. 155-159 in Proc. SCS Multiconference on Distributed Simulation, San Diego, California, 3-5 February 1988.

• Otis Bryan,
  ``MODSIM II -- an object oriented simulation language for sequential and parallel processors'',
  pp. 172-177 in Proc. 1989 Winter Simulation Conference, Washington, D. C., December 1989.

• Katherine L. Morse,
  ``Parallel Distributed Simulation in ModSim'',
  pp. ??? in Proc 10^th Annual International Conference on Parallel Processing, 1990.
  Info. from her web page.

• David O. Rich and Randy E. Michelson,
  ``An Assessment of the ModSim/TWOS Parallel Simulation Environment'',
  pp. 509-518 in Proc. 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, 8-11 December 1991.

• Dirk Baezner, Chuck Rohs and Harry Jones,
  ``U.S. Army ModSim on Jade's TimeWarp'',
  pp. 665-671 in Proc. 1992 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, Virginia, 13-16 December 1992

MOSS

• T. D. Blanchard and T. W. Lake,
  ``Distributed Simulation with Locality'',
  pp. 195-198 in Proc. 9^th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Lake Placid, New York, 14-16 June 1995.
  Abstract.

Sim++

• Dirk Baezner, Greg Lomow and Brian W. Unger,
  ``Sim++: The Transition to Distributed Simulation'',
  pp. 211-218 in Proc. SCS Multiconference on Distributed Simulation, San Diego, California, 17-19 January 1990.

Yaddes     (Yet Another Distributed Discrete Event Simulator)

• Bruno R. Priess,
  ``The Yaddes distributed discrete event simulation specification language and execution environments'',
  pp. 139-144 in Proc. SCS Multiconference on Distributed Simulation, Tampa, Florida, March 1989.
  Citation details and abstract. Electronic version available: PostScript paper; slides.

• Bruno R. Priess, Wayne M. Loucks and V. Carl Hamacher,
  ``A unified modeling methodology for performance evaluation of distributed discrete event simulation mechanisms'',
  pp. 315-324 in Proc. 1988 Winter Simulation Conference, San Diego, California, 12-14 December 1988.
  Citation details and abstract. Electronic version available: PostScript paper; slides.

NB: there is also a simulation algorithm called YADDES, due to Sumit Ghosh. As far as I can tell, this is unrelated to the Yaddes language.

PDES systems

GTW     (Georgia Tech Time Warp)

• Samir Das, Richard Fujimoto, Kiran Panesar, Don Allison and Maria Hybinette,
  ``GTW: A Time Warp System for Shared Memory Multiprocessors'',
  pp. 1332-1339 in Proc. 1994 Winter Simulation Conference, Lake Buena Vista, Florida, 11-14 December 1994.
  Electronic version available: PostScript [local copy]

SimKit

• F. Gomes, S. Franks, B. Unger, Z. Xiao, J. Cleary and A. Covington,
  ``SimKit: A High Performance Logical Process Simulation Class Library in C++'',
  pp. 706-713 in Proc. 1995 Winter Simulation Conference, Arlington, Virginia, December 1995.
  Electronic version available: PostScript [local copy]

SPEEDES     (Synchronous Parallel Environment for Emulation and Discrete-Event Simulation)

• Jeff S. Steinman,
  ``SPEEDES: A Multiple-Synchronization Environment for Parallel Discrete-Event Simulation'',
  pp. 251-286 in International Journal in Computer Simulation, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1992.

SPI     (Simulation Programmers' Interface)

• Peter Hoare, I. J. Relf, C. J. M. Booth, M. J. Kirton and K. R. Milner,
  ``The Application of High Performance Parallel Computing to Military Simulation'',
  pp. 115-119 in Proc. Military, Government and Aerospace Simulation Conference (part of the 1995 Simulation MultiConference), Phoenix, Arizona, 9-13 April 1995.
  Electronic versions available: FrameMaker [~112k], PostScript [~136k].

TWOS     (Time Warp Operating System)

• David Jefferson, Brian Beckman, Fred Wieland, Leo Blume, Mike DiLoreto, Phil Hontalas, Pierre Laroche, Kathy Sturdevant, Jack Tupman, Van Warren, John Wedel, Herb Younger and Steve Bellenot,
  ``Distributed Simulation and the Time Warp Operating System'',
  pp. 77-93 in Proc. 11^th Annual ACM Symposium on Operating System Principles, Austin, Texas, 8-11 November 1987.

• David O. Rich and Randy E. Michelson,
  ``An Assessment of the ModSim/TWOS Parallel Simulation Environment'',
  pp. 509-518 in Proc. Proc. 1991 Winter Simulation Conference, Phoenix, Arizona, 8-11 December 1991.

Warped

• Dale E. Martin, Timothy J. McBrayer, and Philip A. Wilsey,
  ``WARPED: A Time Warp Simulation Kernel for Analysis and Application Development'',
  pp. 383-386 in Vol.I (Software Technology and Architecture) of 29^th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-29), January 1996.
  Abstract.