This paper describes a simulation of the Space Station computer network that was constructed during 1986 for the purpose of evaluating the functionality of the network services that provide extensions to the Ada programming language for distributed operation. This simulation was not designed to predict network performance but rather to show feasibility of the concept. However, some performance data was obtained indirectly and is presented herein. The simulation was conducted on a pair of Digital Equipment Corporation VAX 11/785s. The simulation was written in Ada and layered over DECNET. Two classes of message handling services were simulated and both proved to have considerable overhead associated with them. Subsequently, additional simulations and benchmarks were constructed to quantify how much of the overhead was attributable to the Ada language and how much was intrinsic.
A simulation of the space station computer network
Eine Simulation des Rechnernetzes der Raumstation
1987
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