SPREAD: A Distributed Simulation Toolkit
Paul Chernett, Vic Callaghan, C. Ching, D. Diemmi · Computer Science Education · 1998
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.