As described in this paper, the GUI interface to the Sunflower Simulator provides facilities for splitting up your simulations of networks of processing elements over multiple hosts—indeed, the GUI was implemented specifically to enable this.
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The Mac OS X GUI version of the simulator was recently listed on Apple’s software download page for Unix and Open Source applications available for Mac OS, a link to which is built into every Mac. Not surprisingly, there were almost a hundred downloads of the packaged GUI in the first few days. Not bad for an academic research tool.
The Sunflower Tool Suite HiPEAC 2008 tutorial, held in Göteborg, Sweden, at the end of January, was a great success! Thanks to all those who attended. All the participants received a printed tutorial guide with a summary of the material to be covered, a DVD with the source for the simulator, benchmarks, the necessary GCC cross-compiler sources, the hardware designs of the various Sunflower hardware platforms, and the source for the simulator GUI (which are all also available online); participants also received a free t-shirt.