Scalable Simulation Framework

• SSF Research Network
  
  Dartmouth SSF is an active participant of SSF Research Network (SSFNET), an open consortium of SSF users whose goal is to develop and validate SSF-based modeling strategies, and to exchange SSF network models. This site contains a collection of SSF-based models for simulating Internet protocols and networks.
  
• Scalable Self-Organizing Simulations (S3) at DIMACS, Rutgers University.
  
  Dartmouth SSF is part of project S3, whose goal is to achieve radical improvements in simulations of very large scale communications networks, with collaboration of researchers in networking and parallel simulations.
  
• Parallel JTeD Homepage at Dartmouth College.
  
  Java SSF stands for Java implementation of Scalable Simulation Framework. Java SSF provides the primary reference implementation of SSF and serves as a platform for development of its most advanced features. The potential for network-wide distributed Java simulations is discussed here.
  
• JSSF at Cooperating Systems Corporation.
  
  JSSF from Cooperating Systems provides the reference implementation of the Java SSF API. JSSF is a pure Java code that runs on anything. With JDK1.2 it provides respectably fast parallel execution on multiprocessor SUN Solaris. The site also contains extensive documentations on SSF.
  
• SSF Implementation of BGP-4, maintained by Brian J. Premore.
  
  This is an SSF implementation of simulating Border Gateway Protocol, developed as part of SSFNET.
  

Miscellaneous

• TeD - Telecommunications Description Language at Georgia Tech is a language that has been developed mainly for modeling telecommunication network elements and protocols. TeD is developed on top of Georgia Tech Time Warp kernel.
  
• Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS), maintained by Samir R. Das. This site contains comprehensive links to researchers and projects in PADS community.
  
• The Cilk Project at MIT is a language for multi-threaded parallel programming based on ANSI C. Dartmouth SSF's multi-threading scheme is coined by Cilk with significant extensions to parallel simulation and C++.
  
• Mersenne Twister is a pseudorandom number generator that has a provable period of ^19937-1 and 623-dimensional equidistribution property, according to its creator.
  
• Metis from University of Minnesota. Metis is a graph partitioning tool, which is modified and used by us to partition DaSSF simulation models.
  
• Hoard from University of Texas at Austin. Hoard is a scalable memory allocator for multithreaded applications. Hoard is incorporated in DaSSF for parallel memory management support.
  
• Doug Lea's memory allocator is used either directly in DaSSF or as the backend of Hoard.