The Role of Simulation Performance in Software-in-the-Loop Simulations

The simulation performance is one aspect that becomes important in the practical application of simulations. A number of situations necessitates high-performance simulations: The simulation of large systems, over long time-periods or exploring a large solution space. Starting with these scenarios we discuss the parallelization of a discrete event simulation (DES) model using a synthetic benchmark model. Using the example of the German automatic toll system we explore the performance constraints originating from coupling an abstract simulation model with a real-world system.