Object-Oriented Database Technology Applied to Distributed Simulation

There are several ways in which object-oriented database technology can be harnessed to assist in the implementation of simulation packages. We have already integrated our own simulation environment, HASE, with a commercially-available object-oriented database management system. In particular, we use the database system's transaction processing and object persistence facilities. We are currently extending the HASE simulation environment so that it can exploit distributed computing facilities by using the distributed cli-ent/server architecture of the object-oriented database system. We are taking this approach in order to parallelize an experiment rather than an individual simulation run.