An Implementation of the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework on the Cray MTA

Large-scale parallel discrete event simulations of massive networks, such as the Internet, are “Grand Challenge” problems: packet level simulation of even a small fraction of the Internet would consume the resources of the most powerful computers available. We reimplement the SSF Scalable Simulation Framework so we can run large-scale network simulations originally written for DaSSF. Our implementation, CraySSF, is designed for the Cray-MTA, a multithreaded supercomputer architecture developed specifically to address large-scale computations of the kind that are not easily distributed. This paper describes the architecture, implementation issues, and preliminary performance results on a variety of (stock) serial and parallel architectures.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: PADS
• Authors: Robert R. Henry, Simon Kahan, Jason Liu, David M. Nicol
• Keywords: Large-scale Network Simulations, Large-scale Parallel Discrete, Modelling And Simulation, PADS 2003, SSF Scalable Simulation