Toward Accurate Simulation of Large-Scale Systems via Time Dilation

Distributed systems, particularly heterogeneous systems, have been historically hard to validate [1]. Even at small scales—and despite significant efforts at planning, modeling, and integrating new and existing systems into a functional system-of-systems—end users often experience unforeseen (and often undesirable) emergent behavior on the target infrastructure. Some types of unexpected emergent 420behaviors include unwanted synchronization of distributed processes, deadlock and starvation, and race conditions in large-scale integrations or deployments [2].