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Declined by Caleb Stanford 10 days ago. Last edited by Caleb Stanford 10 days ago. Reviewer: Inform author.

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Ref. 1 is about "distribution systems", not distributed systems. Ref. 2 and Ref. 4 are not independently notable. Caleb Stanford (talk) 20:38, 10 May 2025 (UTC)

A distributed system simulator is a software tool used to model and imitate the behavior of distributed systems in a virtual environment.^[1] These simulators allow developers, engineers, and researchers to evaluate, test^[2], and optimize distributed architectures without needing to deploy them in physical or production systems.^[3] By offering an environment to simulate real-world behaviors^[4]—such as message passing, node failures, latency variations, and concurrency—distributed system simulators make it easier to develop and debug complex systems under safe and repeatable conditions.^[3]

One of the core advantages of these tools is the ability to test distributed systems without risking data loss, hardware failure, or unintended side effects..^[1] Simulators also allow developers to reproduce rare or difficult-to-trigger bugs by artificially recreating specific network conditions or execution sequences that might be hard to observe in live environments.^[4] This capability makes them a valuable resource for both academic research and production-grade engineering, especially when evaluating the reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability of distributed algorithms^[4]

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^ ^a ^b Connors, Michael M.; Coray, Claude; Cuccaro, Carol J.; Green, William K.; Low, David W.; Markowitz, Harry M. (April 1972). "The Distribution System Simulator". Management Science. 18 (8): B–425. doi:10.1287/mnsc.18.8.B425. ISSN 0025-1909.
^ King, Jayden; Kim, Young Ki; Lee, Young Choon; Hong, Seok-Hee (December 2019). "Visualisation of Distributed Systems Simulation Made Simple". 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). pp. 309–312. doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2019.00053. ISBN 978-1-7281-5011-6.
^ ^a ^b "The Modern Age of Computer Systems Simulation — SimGrid documentation". simgrid.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Simulation: An Underutilized Tool in Distributed Systems - ACM Queue". queue.acm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.

[:0-1] Connors, Michael M.; Coray, Claude; Cuccaro, Carol J.; Green, William K.; Low, David W.; Markowitz, Harry M. (April 1972). "The Distribution System Simulator". Management Science. 18 (8): B–425. doi:10.1287/mnsc.18.8.B425. ISSN 0025-1909.

[2] King, Jayden; Kim, Young Ki; Lee, Young Choon; Hong, Seok-Hee (December 2019). "Visualisation of Distributed Systems Simulation Made Simple". 2019 IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom). pp. 309–312. doi:10.1109/CloudCom.2019.00053. ISBN 978-1-7281-5011-6.

[:1-3] "The Modern Age of Computer Systems Simulation — SimGrid documentation". simgrid.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.

[:2-4] "Simulation: An Underutilized Tool in Distributed Systems - ACM Queue". queue.acm.org. Retrieved 2025-04-20.

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