A portable parallel environment for complex systems simulation through cellular automata networks

Abstract In this paper we describe the Parallel Environment for Cellular Automata Network Simulation (PECANS) we developed to deal with the simulation of complex systems. It provides a user-friendly environment in which all the aspects of the simulation activity can be easily carried out. In particular we describe how the PECANS environment allowed us to easily port it on different architectures, both sequential and parallel ones. Some experimental results are also reported.