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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2016
Filed:
Jan. 14, 2011
Charles J. Archer, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael A. Blocksome, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph D. Ratterman, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian E. Smith, Rochester, MN (US);
Charles J. Archer, Rochester, MN (US);
Michael A. Blocksome, Rochester, MN (US);
Joseph D. Ratterman, Rochester, MN (US);
Brian E. Smith, Rochester, MN (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Distributed hardware device simulation, including: identifying a plurality of hardware components of the hardware device; providing software components simulating the functionality of each hardware component, wherein the software components are installed on compute nodes of a distributed processing system; receiving, in at least one of the software components, one or more messages representing an input to the hardware component; simulating the operation of the hardware component with the software component, thereby generating an output of the software component representing the output of the hardware component; and sending, from the software component to at least one other software component, one or more messages representing the output of the hardware component.