Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: bojan@netcom.com (Bojan Groselj)
Subject: CPS 1.0 PARALLEL DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATOR
Date: 25 Apr 1994 15:20:07 -0400

***** CPS 1.0 PARALLEL DISCRETE-EVENT SIMULATOR NOW AVAILABLE *****

[Ed: Now works on CM-5, Intel iPSC (Paragon), Convex-HP Exemplar,
PVM, PCs, workstations. See new announcement below]

Discrete event simulation is used for simulating queueing networks, 
such as telephone and computer networks, VLSI circuits, battlefields, 
and other discrete-event systems. Traditionally, discrete event 
simulations have been executed on sequential machines.
Sequential machines. i.e., uniprocessors, severely limit the size of the 
simulated model and the simulation running time.

CPS 1.0 enables efficient discrete event simulations on parallel machines. 
CPS 1.0 modules are written in C programming language, and have to be 
linked with user's application program.  CPS 1.0 currently runs on Intel 
iPSC multicomputers, but can be ported (upon request) to other parallel 
MIMD machines, such as Caltech hypercubes or Sequent multicomputers. 

The main features of CPS 1.0 are:

(1) It is as easy to run a simulation with CPS 1.0 as it is to run a
    sequential simulation.
(2) The synchronization and message-passing mechanisms are hidden.
(3) CPS 1.0 provides a choice of automatic or manual mapping of the 
    simulated system onto the multicomputer nodes.
(4) CPS 1.0 greatly speeds up simulations. A typical run: 29.8 min (1 node),
    16.9 min (2 nodes), 10 min (4 nodes), 5.8 min (8 nodes), 3.3 min 
    (16 nodes), 2.1 min (32 nodes).
(5) Parallel simulations in CPS 1.0 are deadlock-free.
(6) CPS 1.0 provides a library of functions (random number generation, 
    many different report facilities; computes utilization, mean queue 
    length, throughput, mean response time, variances, etc.).

  * You don't need to own a parallel machine, you just need an account.

  FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
 _______________________________________________________________________
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|  Bojan Groselj, Ph.D.                       E-mail: bojan@cs.umd.edu  |
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Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: bojan@netcom.com (Bojan Groselj)
Subject: CPSim parallel simulation tool
Summary: CPSim discrete event simulation tool
Keywords: CPSim, BoyanTech, Inc., parallel simulation
Organization: NETCOM On-line Communication Services (408 261-4700 guest)
Date: 17 Jan 1996 03:16:35 GMT
Message-ID: <bojanDLA6L0.DE4@netcom.com>

CPSim is a high-performance discrete event simulation tool for writing
simulations in C. It runs on CM-5, Intel iPSC (Paragon), Convex-HP Exemplar,
PVM, PCs, workstations. Applications are fully portable accross all platforms.
For more information, and to download CPSim, see

http://www.wdn.com/bti-sim/

Bojan Groselj
bojan@netcom.com