Norm Matloff's MulSim Multiprocessor Simulator

MulSim is a simulator for a shared-memory multiprocessor, written by Norman Matloff with a compiler by Kevin Rich. Its advantage is its simplicity and platform independence, compared to more sophisticated simulators such as rsim, PROTEUS, Tango and limes, which are platform-restricted and much more complicated to use. Another advantage of MulSim is that it includes a built-in debugging tool. On the other hand, MulSim is not as polished as, say, rsim (as of now one cannot use the float type in C and the debugger is not fully symbolic).

Here is what is available for MulSim:

• The source code, last updated February 7, 1999. It should compile easily on virtually any Unix system.

• The documentation, by Prof. Matloff.

• A sample program.

Professor Matloff also is the author of TupleDSM, a software distributed shared memory (DSM) system running on top of a Linda environment. Its simple structure is especially suited for teaching students about the "innards" of software DSM systems.

Other software Web sites by Norm Matloff:

• Professor Matloff's Unix/C tutorials.

• His clean, easily-installable implementation of the Linda parallel programming paradigm.

• Dr. Matloff's introduction to the mutt e-mail utility. Don't use pine! It was designed for people who are afraid of computers, not for computer experts.

• His "Extremely Quick and Simple Introduction to the Vi Text editor," and his introductions to the elvis and vim extensions to vi. The latter are much better than ordinary vi (and far, FAR better than pico). X11 mouse capability; subwindows (even on nongraphics terminals); infinite undo; paragraph formatting and so on.

• Norman Matloff's guide to fast debugging!

• Dr. Matloff's beginner's guide to installing and using Linux.

• His general guide to editing program source code.

• Norm Matloff's Chinese-language software page.

• Professor Matloff's LaTeX Web page.