HIVE is a middleware platform for scalable distributed simulation development. In this paper, we introduce HIVE and explore how to develop a scalable distributed simulation on HIVE. To improve the scalability, HIVE focuses on system architecture, communication model and interest mechanism. The four characteristics of HIVE are described as: "middleware platform," "scalability," "complete services" and "reusability and interoperability." We explain how HIVE supports a simulation and the architecture of the application on HIVE, and bring forward the essentials developers should pay attention to and the steps to develop a simulation on HIVE. Finally, a simple demo is also given to address the simulation framework in detail.

Date Published: 19 March 2004
PDF: 6 pages
Proc. SPIE 5444, Fourth International Conference on Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Industry, (19 March 2004); doi: 10.1117/12.561148

Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5444:
Fourth International Conference on Virtual Reality and Its Applications in Industry
Jizhou Sun; Zhigeng Pan, Editor(s)