1. SPREAD: A Distributed Simulation Toolkit.
- Author
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Chernett, Paul, Callaghan, Vic, Ching, C., and Diemmi, D.
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COMPUTER simulation ,MOBILE robots ,COMPUTER science ,COMPUTER software ,HIGHER education - Abstract
This article describes “SPREAD”, a simulation toolkit, and its use in building “Virtual Robots”, a simulation of multiple mobile robot vehicles used in the teaching of computer science at university level. A novel aspect of the simulator is the use of PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) to achieve high performance at low cost by using spare CPU cycles on large numbers of networked workstations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 1998
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