Improved Parallel Architectural Simulations on Shared-Memory Multiprocessors

this paper we present a synchronous, parallel, event-driven approach (SPaDES). It differs from previous approaches in many ways: (1) it contains a single, global synchronization operation per simulation phase; (2) it introduces a minimum number of kernel operations into the simulation; (3) it allows for efficient processor self-scheduling; and (4) it aggressively exposes parallelism onl