SimCore: A Library for Rapid Development of Large Scale Parallel Simulations

Sunil Thulasidasan, Lukas Kroc, Stephan Eidenbenz

2012

Abstract

We present the SimCore parallel simulation library, an object-oriented framework for developing parallel distributed discrete-event simulation applications, implemented in C++ with a Python front-end. SimCore is designed to scale to thousands of processors but is simple enough to use for application programmers, an outcome of its fast C++ core and message passing routines integrated with the full expressive power of Python. We discuss the design philosophy of SimCore including the software architecture and the C++/Python interface implementation that allows applications to be written in pure Python or a hybrid of Python and C++ or even pure C++. We also provide real world examples of the scalability and briefly describe a few diverse applications that have been deployed using SimCore.

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Thulasidasan S., Kroc L. and Eidenbenz S. (2012). SimCore: A Library for Rapid Development of Large Scale Parallel Simulations . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH, ISBN 978-989-8565-20-4, pages 71-76. DOI: 10.5220/0004063700710076


in Bibtex Style

@conference{simultech12,
author={Sunil Thulasidasan and Lukas Kroc and Stephan Eidenbenz},
title={SimCore: A Library for Rapid Development of Large Scale Parallel Simulations},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,},
year={2012},
pages={71-76},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004063700710076},
isbn={978-989-8565-20-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Simulation and Modeling Methodologies, Technologies and Applications - Volume 1: SIMULTECH,
TI - SimCore: A Library for Rapid Development of Large Scale Parallel Simulations
SN - 978-989-8565-20-4
AU - Thulasidasan S.
AU - Kroc L.
AU - Eidenbenz S.
PY - 2012
SP - 71
EP - 76
DO - 10.5220/0004063700710076