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A distributed system simulator is a software tool used to model and imitate the behavior of distributed systems in a virtual environment.[1] These simulators allow developers, engineers, and researchers to evaluate, test[2], and optimize distributed architectures without needing to deploy them in physical or production systems.[3] By offering an environment to simulate real-world behaviors[4]—such as message passing, node failures, latency variations, and concurrency—distributed system simulators make it easier to develop and debug complex systems under safe and repeatable conditions.[3]
One of the core advantages of these tools is the ability to test distributed systems without risking data loss, hardware failure, or unintended side effects.[1] Simulators also allow developers to reproduce rare or difficult-to-trigger bugs by artificially recreating specific network conditions or execution sequences that might be hard to observe in live environments.[4] This capability makes them a valuable resource for both academic research and production-grade engineering, especially when evaluating the reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability of distributed algorithms[4].
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- ^ King, Jayden; Kim, Young Ki; Lee, Young Choon; Hong, Seok-Hee (December 2019). "Visualisation of Distributed Systems Simulation Made Simple". 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom): 309–312. doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2019.00053.
- ^ a b "The Modern Age of Computer Systems Simulation — SimGrid documentation". simgrid.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.
- ^ a b c "Simulation: An Underutilized Tool in Distributed Systems - ACM Queue". queue.acm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.