Spectrum: A Parallel Simulation Testbed

SPECTRUM is a testbed for designing and evaluating parallel simulation protocols. The concept is based on the work reported in [Reyn88] in which it was shown that a broad range of possibilities exists for designing parallel simulation protocols. SPECTRUM is the first known testbed in which experimentation on a full range of protocols is supported in a common environment. We introduce the use of filters as a means for efficiently specifying protocols. We have implemented prototype versions of our testbed on an INTEL iPSC/2 and a BBN GP-1000.