Basic Tutorial

This tutorial describes the basic functions of simulus. You should be able to find all examples shown in this tutorial under the examples directory in the simulus source-code distribution.

• 1. What’s Simulus?
• 2. How Does It Work?
  • 2.1. Direct Event Scheduling
    • 2.1.1. The Hello-World Example
    • 2.1.2. Passing Arguments to Event Handlers
    • 2.1.3. The Life of a Professor
    • 2.1.4. Canceling and Rescheduling Events
    • 2.1.5. More on Simulators
  • 2.2. Process Scheduling
    • 2.2.1. Hello-World Using Process
    • 2.2.2. The Professor’s Life as a Process
    • 2.2.3. Processes Everywhere
• 3. Inter-Process Communication
  • 3.1. Traps
    • 3.1.1. One-Time Signaling
    • 3.1.2. Barriers
  • 3.2. Semaphores
    • 3.2.1. Circular Wait
    • 3.2.2. Producer-Consumer Problem
    • 3.2.3. Queuing Disciplines
  • 3.3. Trappables and Conditional Waits
    • 3.3.1. Waiting on Multiple Trappables
    • 3.3.2. A Race between Tom and Jerry
• 4. Resources and Facilities
  • 4.1. Resources
    • 4.1.1. A Single-Server Queue
    • 4.1.2. Conditional Wait on Resources
  • 4.2. Stores and Buckets
    • 4.2.1. Producer-Consumer Problem Revisited
    • 4.2.2. Uncountable Quantities
    • 4.2.3. Conditional Wait on Stores
  • 4.3. Mailboxes
    • 4.3.1. The PHOLD Example
    • 4.3.2. Peek versus Retrieve
    • 4.3.3. Conditional Wait on Mailboxes
• 5. Useful Tips
  • 5.1. Pseudo-Random Numbers
  • 5.2. Statistical Data Collection