Re: Parallel implementation of petri nets

In December I made the following query:


> I am interested in running a petri net on a parallel machine such as the
> transputer. Could netters post me information on references, available
> implementations, or other relevant advice.


I received the following replies:


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 12:31:54 +0100
Reply-To: Andreas Mueck <mueck@unipas.fmi.uni-passau.de>


I can recommend you the following paper:


      Taubner D.: On the implementation of Petri nets, in: proc. 8th
                              Petri Net Workshop, Zaragosa, Spain, 471-488, 1987.


At CeBit '90 (greates Computer Exhibition in Germany) I talked to
some people of Switzerland, which already have transputer implementation
of PN. Here are their addresses:


    Jacques E. Boillat
    Transfer of New Technologies (TNT)
    Waaghausgasse 2
    CH - 3001 Bern
    Switzerland


    Robert Esser
    LGZ Landis & Gyr Zug Corp.
    Central Research and Development Project leader Informatics
    CH - 6301 Zug
    Switzerland


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Date: Wed, 5 Dec 90 10:25 CDT
Reply-To: BUCKLES@comus.cs.tulane.edu


I picked up your query about running Petri nets on parallel machine
architectures. I don't know of any parallel simulation but I do know of one
distributed simulation.


It is being carried out by


Dr. Devendra Kumar
Dept. of Computer Engineering
Case Western Reserve University
10900 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106


1-216-368-2557
dev@alpha.ces,cwru.edu


The particular class of nets he is simulating is timed P-T.


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Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 17:20:16 +0100
Reply-To: Robert Valette <robert@droopy.laas.fr>


I know the following paper:
"A distributed simulator for high order Petri nets"
by B. Buetler, R. Esser, R. Mattmann
(Central Research and development, Landis and Gyr Zug AG,
  Zug Switzerland)
published at:
10th International Conference on Application and Theory of Petri Nets
Bonn, Germany, June 28-30, 1989.
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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 90 17:18:49 +0100
Reply-To: adamb@enst.enst.fr (Adam Beguelin)


We have a system that is based on Petri nets that allows you to design
models and have them executed on a network of suns. See the following
for more info. You can get the software from by sending mail to
garyn@boulder.colorado.edu


@inproceedings{ouroly,
author = "G. Nutt and A. Beguelin and I. Demeure and S. Elliott and J. McWhirter and B. Sanders",
title = "Olympus: An Interactive Simulation System",
booktitle = "1989 Winter Simulation Conference Proceedings",
month = {December},
year = {1989},
editor = "Edward A. MacNair and Kenneth J. Musselman and Philip Heidelberger",
pages = {601--611}
}




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Many thanks to all those who replied.
--
Charles Lakos. charles@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au
Computer Science Department,
University of Tasmania, Phone: +61 02 20 2371
Australia. Fax: +61 02 20 2913
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