| Article ID: | iaor1992366 |
| Country: | United States |
| Volume: | 56 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Start Page Number: | 31 |
| End Page Number: | 40 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1991 |
| Journal: | ACM SIGPLAN Notices |
| Authors: | Malbassa V. |
The basic goal of the project reported in this paper was to design and implement an experimental multimicroprocessor system dedicated to the real-time parallel simulation of dynamic systems of various degrees of complexity. The implemented multimicroprocessor called RAMS is also used to study the parallelization concepts of dynamic system models. Potential application of RAMS is in the process control area. The RAMS hardware architecture and software concepts, in particular the automatic synthesis of RAMS application software, are given in some detail. The problems of both task creation and scheduling in the non-deterministic RAMS environment are addressed. The experimental results show the power of RAMS through the parallel simulation of a case study dynamic system.