31 Nathan Evans Chris GauthierDickey Christian Grothoff Krista Grothoff Jeff Keene Matthew J. Rutherford 2010 43rd Annual Simulation Symposium Orlando, FL, USA Society for Modeling & Simulation International resource allocation simulation FiDES This paper presents how the DUP System, a POSIX-compatible framework that enables straightforward, programming-language agnostic, parallel and distributed stream processing, can be used to facilitate parallel and distributed simulations. Specifically, we describe two ways we use DUP to utilize available resources for efficient simulation: (1) we describe a straightforward technique for parallelizing multiple runs of an existing simulation program with minimal changes, and (2) we introduce FiDES, a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) framework built atop DUP that provides a simple, yet powerful, means of implementing a parallel and/or distributed DES. Finally, we describe a toolset for profiling, debugging and visualization that aids the developer of DUP simulations. To support these claims, we present various performance benchmarks that collectively demonstrate how DUP and FiDES can make high-performance simulation accessible to everyone.