Generative Coordination Environments Supporting Parallel Discrete Event Simulation

Abstract The utilization of coordination languages based on the generative paradigm for supporting the implementation of parallel discrete-event simulators is considered. A parallel simulation methodology called Active-Events (ActE) which is based on a sophisticated generative coordination model is proposed in order to make the task of designing a parallel simulator easier and to fully exploit the capabilities of coordination languages. An implementation of mechanisms of the coordination model by relying on the Linda coordination language is proposed. A simulator for queuing models based on ActE and developed in the coordination framework thus resulting is experimentally studied to assess the suitability of different mechanisms which implement the particular object retrieval criterion of the coordination model.