Parsec Reading List

The following materials are suggested reading for persons interested in using the Parsec parallel simulation langauge. Articles "Parsec: A Parallel Simulation Environment for Complex Systems," R. Bagrodia, R. Meyer, M. Takai, Y. Chen, X. Zeng, J. Martin, B. Park, H. Song; IEEE Computer, Vol. 31(10), October 1998, pp. 77-85 [PDF file]. R. Bagrodia, X. Zeng, Glomosim: A Library for the Parallel Simulation of Large Wireless Networks, Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 98). A. Alwan, R. Bagrodia, N. Bambos, M. Gerla, L. Kleinrock, J. Short, J. Villasenor, "Adaptive Mobile Multimedia Network", IEEE Personal Communications, June 1997. R. Bagrodia, and Wentoh Liao. Maisie: A language for Design of Efficient Dicrete Event Simulation, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, April 1994. R. Fujimoto, "Parallel Discrete Event Simulation," Communications of the ACM, October 1990. The PARSEC User's Manual [PostScript] and PARSEC Tutorial. Parallel Computing Designing and Building Parallel Programs: Concepts and Tools for Parallel Software Engineering by Ian Foster Introduction to Parallel Computing: Design and Analysis of Parallel Algorithms by Vipin Kumar, Ananth Grama, Anshul Gupta, George Karypis In Search of Clusters, Second Edition by Gregory F. Pfister Concurrent Programming: Principles and Practice by Gregory R. Andrews Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by John Hennessey High Performance Compilers for Parallel Computing by Michael Joseph Wolfe Simulation Simulation Modeling and Analysis by Averill Law, David M. Kelton Handbook of Simulation: Principles, Methodology, Advances, Applications, and Practice by Jerry Banks (Editor) enter keywords...