Welcome

ROSS is an acronym for Rensselaer’s Optimistic Simulation System. It is a parallel discrete-event simulator that executes on multiprocessor systems and/or supercomputers. ROSS is geared for running large-scale simulation models (millions of object models).

This site contains documentation for both ROSS users (aka model developers) and ROSS developers. It also contains an overview and brief history.

If you are currently developing a ROSS model and would like to request a new feature, please create an Issue on Github.

Latest Updates

• Usage FAQ

  faq • Posted on Dec 21, 2021 • Neil McGlohon and Elkin Cruz

  A quick list of Answered Questions for new people (and not so much) to ROSS.

• LP and PE Mappings

  feature • Posted on Jun 23, 2020

  Once a model is developed for ROSS, the performance of simulations becomes hugely important. One factor that can play a role is how the LPs are mapped to the physical hardware underneath. LPs that communicate frequently may benefit from being placed within the same MPI process, while LPs that communicate infrequently may be placed on different MPI processes.

• Release 7.2.0

  announcement • Posted on Dec 3, 2019 • Elsa Gonsiorowski

  This release has some new features:

  • A new default processor clock based on get-time-of-day, which should work on any (and every) architecture (#170)
  • Support for the ARMv7I architecture (#155)
  • A new API for user-defined simulation time (tw_stime) (#159)

• Versioning and Releases

  ross-dev • Posted on Dec 2, 2019 • Elsa Gonsiorowski

  In addition to the git branching workflow development model, the ROSS project uses the Semantic Versioning model for version numbers. This helps with reproducibility of experiments detailed in publications and helps users ensure that they are using the correct version of ROSS, especially when using other software that depends on ROSS.

• Default Clock: Get-Time-of-Day

  feature • Posted on Oct 22, 2019 • Elsa Gonsiorowski

  With PR #170 there is a new default clock based on the system gettimeofday function. This means that ROSS can function on any architecture, even if a processor-specific system clock is not implemented. More details on the gettimeofday function can be found on the linux man page.