simulation@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu (Moderator: Paul Fishwick) (10/19/90)
Volume: 18, Issue: 6, Fri Oct 19 09:08:11 EDT 1990 +----------------+ | TODAY'S TOPICS | +----------------+ (1) RE: Conflicting Times for Conferences (V18 N5) (2) WANTED: Information about SIM++ (3) CALL: IEEE Software/Performance Analysis (4) RE: Availability of SPICE (V18 N5) (5) CALL: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (6) Call for Discussion: comp.lang.vhdl (7) Sales Management Simulation * Moderator: Paul Fishwick, Univ. of Florida * Send topical mail to: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu OR post to comp.simulation via USENET * Archives available via FTP to bikini.cis.ufl.edu (128.227.224.1). Login as 'ftp', use your last name as the password, change directory to pub/simdigest. Do 'type binary' before any file xfers. * Simulation Tools available by doing above and changing the directory to pub/simdigest/tools. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 15 Oct 90 17:10:41 EDT From: "Michael J. Chinni, SMCAR-CCS-E" <mchinni@PICA.ARMY.MIL> To: CELLIER%EVAX2@arizona.edu Cc: simulation@cis.ufl.edu Subject: Re: SIMULATION DIGEST V18 N4 Organization: CCAC W/A Extention: x4140 Sir, The point you raise is a good one, but not a new one. This problem has been around a while. One aspect of this problem is that while SCS tries to avoid such conflicts whenever possible, not all simulation societies are so inclined. Other aspects of the problem are: societies not knowing of conflicts at all or not until after contractual commitments have been made; trying to find a good city and accomodations that are available and reasonably priced for the timeframe of your conference; the consideration of the effect of such a conflict (i.e. will the conflict detract sufficiently from your conference that it is worth the time and effort to try to avoid the conflict). I don't believe we can expect to have absolutely no conflicting conferences, but maybe we as simulationists and subscribers to this Digest can help our societies to avoid such conflicts in the future. To this end I suggest that a list be formed consisting of names and mailing addresses of all societies running or planning to run simulation conferences. Given such a list we can then as members of our respective societies recommend to the society leadership that they use this list to exchange calendars of events. Such an exchange would be used to plan future conferences that would not conflict with other conferences. Since I suggested it, if the readers of this digest want such a list, I hereby volunteer to coordinate its formation. If this is agreeable (to the readership and Digest moderator) then the readership of this Digest should send me society names and mailing addresses (as I mentioned in the previous paragraph). /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ Michael J. Chinni Simulation Techniques and Workplace Automation Team US Army Armament Research, Development, and Engineering Center User to skeleton sitting at cobweb () Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey and dust covered workstation () ARPA: mchinni@pica.army.mil "System been down long?" () UUCP: ...!uunet!pica.army.mil!mchinni /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@uunet.uu.net Path: hathi.eng.ohio-state.edu!krishnav From: krishnav@hathi.eng.ohio-state.edu (Krishna Veerahhanta) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: SIM++ Keywords: simulation, distributed processing SIM++ Date: 15 Oct 90 21:50:27 GMT Organization: The Ohio State University Dept of Electrical Engineering Hi Does anyone out there know anything about a language called SIM++? It is believed to have inbuilt functions for distributed processing. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks -Krishna P.S: Please send mail directly or reply to this message CTA Inc Internet: krishnav@faatcrl.UUCP Voice:(609)-484-4812 UUCP : ...rutgers!faatcrl!krishnav ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 90 10:20:19 PDT From: Kathleen Nichols <nichols@cirocco.apple.com> To: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu Subject: call for papers (We expect many papers will be simulation studies.) Call for Papers IEEE Software Magazine Theme Issue on Software for Performance Analysis Performance analysis is rapidly becoming a hot topic in software engineering. Performance analysis is meant to answer the questions beyond "Is it correct?". The focus is on whether the system under study is "fast enough" or "reliable enough" and "what is the effect of making changes in the system?". These questions are important in several key emerging areas: * Graphics workstations have made it possible to create sophisticated software systems with visually-oriented interfaces, but response time is a critical performance attribute. * Real-time embedded systems must meet requirements of timing and reliability. * High-speed networks are being designed to meet the demands of distributed computing and of connecting ultra-fast CPUs. Whether such networks can be made fast enough at a reasonable cost must be addressed before significant resources are devoted to them. * Parallel computing is highly performance-oriented: significant speedups or significantly larger problems must be acheived to make the additional software, hardware, and programming overhead cost effective. These are four widely disparate areas, but all require performance analysis. This need has recently been recognized by major corporations like Hewlett-Packard, Intel, and Apple Computer, who have all started major projects involving performance analysis. In the past, performance has either been ignored or has been carried out by running discrete and repetitious experiments resulting in lengthy dumps of metrics which were analyzed by hand. Today's complex systems require more than simple dumps of metrics. Systems are studied through instrumenting, modeling, and simulating software and hardware. The overwhelming amount of data produced by such systems and the numerous options involved require that performance information be given to the user in a digested form, possibly with some analysis done or important data highlighted. These methodologies and techniques for the study of software performance need to be shared. This issue of IEEE Software will provide a forum for recent developments in software methods and techniques that serve to expedite performance analysis. This is a call for papers on performance analysis tools and reports of particular software studies presented as a systematic approach to measurement and analysis of software performance. Papers describing both case studies of general importance and tools of proven effectiveness are solicited. In particular, innovative methodologies and novel presentations of performance data that have a potential for wide application are sought. Submit 6 copies of manuscript by February 1, 1991 to: Kathleen M. Nichols or Paul Oman Apple Computer, Inc. Computer Science Dept. 20525 Mariani Avenue College of Engineering M/S 76-3K University of Idaho Cupertino, CA 95014 Moscow, ID 83843 (408) 974-1136 (208) 885-6589 nichols@apple.com oman@ted.cs.uidaho.edu For further information, contact Kathleen or Paul at the above addresses. ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@decwrl.dec.com Path: mips!hal!mark From: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: Re: SIMULATION DIGEST V18 N5 Date: 15 Oct 90 23:32:48 GMT References: <24900@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> Sender: news@mips.COM Reply-To: mark@mips.COM (Mark G. Johnson) Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Inc. In simulation digest v18 n5, lutz@fstc-chville.army.mil (Mr David Lutz) writes >Does anyone know the procedure for getting the >computer program SPICE (Simulation Program >with IC Emphasis) ???? It was written >at UC Berkeley... Is there a site I can >anonymous-FTP it from??? > SPICE isn't public domain; you license it from the Regents of the University of California (Berkeley). Fortunately the license fee is quite small. Call Cindy Manley at the UCB/ERL Software Publications Office: (415) 643-6687. She'll send you an order form. The license stipulates that you won't redistribute the program for profit. -- -- Mark Johnson MIPS Computer Systems, 930 E. Arques M/S 2-02, Sunnyvale, CA 94086 (408) 524-8308 mark@mips.com {or ...!decwrl!mips!mark} ------------------------------ To: comp-simulation@eedsp.gatech.edu Path: eedsp!vijaykm From: vijaykm@eedsp.gatech.edu (Vijay Madisetti) Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation 1991 Keywords: Parallel and Distributed Simulation, Parallel Processing Synchronization Date: 18 Oct 90 00:41:41 GMT Reply-To: vijaykm@eedsp.gatech.edu (Vijay Madisetti) Organization: EE, Georgia Institute of Technology ACM, IEEE, SCS WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED SIMULATION (PADS) (Formerly, the "Distributed Simulation Conference") Jointly Sponsored by SCS, IEEE-CS, and ACM January 23-25, 1991 Disneyland Hotel, Anaheim, California, USA General Chairman Technical Program Chairman David Nicol Vijay Madisetti Col. of William and Georgia Tech Mary. Va. Atlanta nicol@cs.wm.edu vijaykm@eedsp.gatech.edu - Program Committee for PADS'91 - Marc Abrams, Virginia Tech, USA. Jon Agre, Rockwell, CA. USA. Rassul Ayani, Royal Inst. of Tech, SWEDEN. Rajive Bagrodia, UCLA, USA Mary Bailey, University of Arizona, USA. Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Tech, USA (Associate Program Chairman) David Jefferson, UCLA, USA. Douglas Jones, University of Iowa, USA. Jason Lin, Bell Communication Research, USA. David Mizell, Boeing Computer Services, USA. Daniel Reed, University of Illinois-Urbana, USA. Paul Reynolds, University of Virginia, USA. Robert Sargent, Syracuse University, NY, USA. Lisa Sokol, MITRE Corp, Va., USA. Carl Tropper, McGill University, CANADA. Brian Unger, Jade Simulations, Calgary, CANADA. David Wagner, University of Colorado, USA. -------- -------- ------- For more information call 404-853-9830 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Keynote Address: "Will Parallel Simulation Survive?" Speaker: Prof. Richard Fujimoto College of Computing Georgia Tech. 3:30PM, Thursday, January 24, 1990 ************************************************* Preliminary Program ******************************* 23 January 1991, Wednesday ************************************************* Session 1: 10:30 AM Session Chair: David Nicol ANALYTICAL MODELS FOR PARALLEL SIMULATION * Two Processor Time Warp Analysis: Some Results on an Unifying Approach, Robert Felderman, Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA Processor Scheduling for Time Warp Simulation. Jason Lin, Bell Communications Research, Ed Lazowska, U of Washington Time Warp with Time Scale Decomposition, H. Ammar, S. Deng, Clarkson University. Session 2: 1:30 PM Session Chair: TBA CONSERVATIVE SIMULATION SYSTEMS * Algorithmic Optimizations for Conservative Parallel Simulation Systems. David Wagner, U of Colorado. Null Message Cancellation in Conservative Distributed Simulation. Bruno Preiss, Wayne Loucks, Ian MacIntyre, James Field, University of Waterloo A Non-Deadlocking Conservative Distributed Synchronization Algorithm Meng-lin Yu, AT & T Bell Labs, Holmdel, Sumit Ghosh, Brown Univ. and Erik DeBenedictus, NCUBE Inc. Session 3: 3:30 PM Session Chair: TBA OPTIMISTIC SIMULATION SYSTEMS * Temporal Decompositions of Simulations under the Time Warp Operating System. Peter Reiher, JPL, Stephen Bellenot, Florida St. Univ, and David Jefferson, UCLA. * User Cancellation of Events in Time Warp. Greg Lomow, Jade Simulations International, Samir Das and Richard Fujimoto, Georgia Tech. Computing the Global Virtual Time Using a Multilevel Token Passing Algorithm. Arturo Concepcion, Cal St. Univ, Scott Kelly, Chris Dailey, and Andrij Rudnitsky, Mich. St. Univ. WORK IN PROGRESS-I 5:30-6:45PM **************************************************** 24 January 1990, Thursday ************************************************* Session 4: 8:30 AM: Session Chair: Richard Fujimoto OPTIMISTIC SIMULATION SYSTEMS II * Efficient Process-Oriented Embedded Simulations in Time Warp. Greg Lomow, Jade Simulations International. * Useful Extensions to the Time Warp Operating System. Jon Agre, Peter Tinker, Rockwell International Corp. Implementing a Global Termination Condition and Collecting Output Measures in Parallel Simulation Marc Abrams, Virginia Tech. Session 5: 10:30 AM Session Chair: Dr. G. Zobrist LARGE DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS * SPEEDES: Synchronous Parallel Environment for Emulation and Discrete Event Simulation. Jeff Steinman, Jet Propulsion Labs A Technical Overview of the SIMNET Project. Craig Kanarick, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc. A Performance Analysis of Distributed Simulation with Clusters of Processes. A. Boukerche, Carl Tropper, McGill University Session 6: 1:30 PM Session Chair: TBA SIMD ARCHITECTURES FOR PARALLEL SIMULATION * An Experimental Analysis of Simulation Clock Advancement in Parallel Logic Simulation on an SIMD Machine. Moon Chung, Yunmo Chung, Michigan St. University. * Parallel Simulation of Multistage Interconnection Networks on a SIMD Computer. Rassul Ayani, Boris Berkman, Royal Inst. of Tech., Sweden * An Approach for Balancing the Workload of the Munich Simulation Computer. Andreas Hagerer and S. Lang, University of Passau, Germany. 3:30 PM Session 7: a. Keynote Talk: Prof. Richard Fujimoto b. Panel Discussion: "Future of Simulation" Session Chair: TBA c. Business Meeting ********************************** Friday, January 25th, 1991 ********************************** Session 8: 8:30 PM Session Chair: Vijay Madisetti ADVANCED ISSUES IN PARALLEL SIMULATION * Synchronous Relaxation for Parallel Simulation with Applications to Circuit Switched Networks. Stephen Eick, Albert Greenberg, Boris Lubachevsky, Alan Weiss, AT & T Bell Labs. Speedup of Conservative Distributed Discrete Event Simulation Methods by Speculative Computing. Horst Mehl, Univ. of Kaiserslautern, Germany * An Efficient Framework for Parallel Simulations Paul Reynolds, Univ. of Virginia. Fast Parallel Simulation of Circuits (invited paper) Jack Briner , U of North Carolina 11:05 AM : Work in Progress II (submission requested from interested participants) ----------------------------- All papers have 30 minute time slots. Strictly enforced. * implies that it is a long paper. --------------------------------------------------------------------- REGISTER EARLY For information concerning registration and other particulars please contact: Society for Computer Simulation, PO Box 17900, San Diego CA 92117-7900, Telephone: 619-277-3888, Fax: (619)-277-3930 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ From: Thomas Dettmer <dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de> Subject: CALL FOR DISCUSSION comp.lang.vhdl To: announce-newgroups@turbo.bio.net Date: Thu, 18 Oct 90 15:11:43 MET DST Cc: simulation@bikini.cis.ufl.edu X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.2 PL16] Hello, Some days ago I tried to post the following announcement into your group. Because I could not see it there until today I think there are problems for our site with moderated groups. Would you please post it into your group? (I send it to comp.lsi, comp.lsi.cad, comp.simulation and news.announce.newgroups - in comp.lsi it was successfull, the only one) Thanks in advance tom ********************************** ************************************* From: dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer) Path: jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de!dettmer Newsgroups: comp.lsi,comp.lsi.cad,comp.compilers,news.announce.newgroups,comp.simulation Subject: CALL FOR DISCUSSION comp.lang.vhdl Expires: References: Sender: Thomas Dettmer Reply-To: dettmer@jupiter.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Thomas Dettmer) Followup-To: news.groups Distribution: world Organization: Universitaet Dortmund Keywords: VHDL CALL FOR DISCUSSION - please respond NAME: comp.lang.vhdl STATUS: unmoderated CHARTER: VHDL-1076 (VHSIC (Very High Speed Integrated Circuits) Hardware Describtion Language) is an IEEE Standard scince 1987. It is "a formal notation intended for use in all phases of the creation of electronic systems. ... it supports the development, verification, synthesis, and testing of hardware designs, the communication of hardware design data ..." [Preface to the IEEE Standard VHDL Language Reference Manual] and especially the SIMULATION of hardware describtions. Additionally VHDL-models are a DoD requirement for vendors. Today simulation systems and other tools (synthesis, verification and others) based on VHDL are available. The VHDL users community is growing fast. Several international conferences organized by the VHDL Users Groups(s) have been held with relevant interest. Other international conferences adress the topic with growing interest as well (Conference on Hardware Description Languages -CHDL-, [European] Design Automation Conference -[Euro]DAC ...). This group is a forum to discuss all problems related with the VHDL Language and tools supporting VHDL. Important topics are (without restriction to other ideas): Problems with the language [reference manual]. Books on VHDL. Design example exchange. Available tools, their features and problems. (compilers, simulation, synthesis, verification ...) Coding conventions. The varios groups and activities in/beside VHDL (WAVES, VASG...) Conferences on VHDL WHY A NEW GROUP: There are currently a lot of tools based on VHDL. As far as I know, they are all commercial, ranging fromm $500 (PC Version Simulator) to <unbounded>. A lot of people are working on tools and more are using the available ones. Some discussions in various groups and mailing lists prove that there is growing interest and a lot of questions/problems have to be solved. It seems, that there will be enough traffic in the new group to justify the creation. SCHEDULE: 1. DISCUSSION The discussion period begins on monday, october 22. It ends on tuesday, november 20. (possibly continued by email) 2. VOTE If the discussion is successfull, I'll send the call for votes on monday, november 26. The rest of the procedure will correctly follow the rules to create new groups (see news.announce.newusers for details). Please respect, that the follow-up of a CALL FOR DISUSSION is news.groups. Send your opinions to this call - otherwise there will be no comp.lang.vhdl. All comments are welcome. tom ----------------------------------------------------------------------- email: dettmer@saturn.ls1.informatik.uni-dortmund.de snail mail: phone: +49-231 755 4825 Thomas Dettmer University of Dortmund FAX: +49-231 75 15 32 Departement of Computer Science I Post Box 50 05 00 D-4600 Dortmund 50 Federal Republic of Germany (West) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------ Return-Path: <root@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx> To: comp-simulation@beaver.cs.washington.edu Path: mtecv2!root From: rgarza@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx Newsgroups: comp.simulation Subject: SALES MANAGEMENT SIMULATION GAME Date: 18 Oct 90 23:30:15 GMT Sender: root@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx Reply-To: rgarza@mtecv2.mty.itesm.mx Distribution: alt I will apreciate any help on my quest for a Sales Management Simulation Game. My intention is to expose several groups of students to a competitive situation in order to allow them to get some expertise in sales management. Any information about software suppliers or actual users would be most apreciated. Thanks. Rogelio I. Garza ------------------------------ END OF SIMULATION DIGEST ************************