| Article ID: | iaor19951155 |
| Country: | Switzerland |
| Volume: | 53 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 249 |
| End Page Number: | 285 |
| Publication Date: | Nov 1994 |
| Journal: | Annals of Operations Research |
| Authors: | Nicol David, Fujimoto Richard |
This paper surveys topics that presently define the state of the art in parallel simulation. Included in the tutorial are discussions on new protocols, mathematical performance analysis, time parallelism, hardware support for parallel simulation, load balancing algorithms, and dynamic memory management for optimistic synchronization.