PACOSS - PARALLEL CONTINUOUS SYSTEM SIMULATION ON A TRANSPUTER NETWORK


W. Borutzky and F. Eirund Department of Computer Science Fachhochschule Koeln, 51643 Gummersbach, FRG fax: +49.2261.8196.15, e-mail: bj020@rs1.rrz.Uni-Koeln.de

ABSTRACT

The paper discusses the aims and the underlying algorithms of an approach to a parallel simulation of continuous systems on a distributed memory machine. The design and the implementation of an experimental general purpose simulator PACOSS on a small transputer network are presented. Some experiences with PACOSS are reported by using a simple well known example.

Keywords: Parallel continuous systems simulation, parallel integration, methods, transputer networks, storage of simulation results, hardware-in-the-loop simulation