· Arena (~900 MB)
o Arena is only available for download on Windows PCs. If you have a Mac, try using Boot Camp, but you’ll have to figure it out on your own.
o Arena is installed on some public computers at NJIT. It is installed on PCs in a computer lab in GITC 2302 and at the PC Mall room 36 (the PC Mall is under the parking deck). The version of Arena may not be the latest version, but you should still be able to use the older versions to do the work in our class.
· Microsoft Office (you need to use your NJIT UCID to download this; Rutgers students also are eligible to get an NJIT UCID)
· Free third-party Monte Carlo add-ins for Excel (useful for running many IID replications of a spreadsheet simulation)
o Poptools (Only works with 32-bit versions of Excel in Windows, even on 64-bit versions of Windows. Does not work on a Mac.)
1. Before installing PopTools, you first need to install the Solver, which is another add-in included with Excel. Installing the Solver may require a Microsoft Office CD. Below are the instructions to install the Solver add-in:
· For Excel 2007, follow these instructions.
· For Excel 2010, follow these instructions.
2. After installing the Solver add-in, follow these instructions to install PopTools.
o Yasai works in 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Excel, in both Windows and Mac.
o Simtools supposedly works with 64-bit versions of Excel. I haven’t used it, so you need to figure it out on your own.
· If you write your programs in C, C++ or Java, you should
use RngStream (developed
by Pierre L’Ecuyer) as your random-number generator:
o
C version,
with documentation
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