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A performance simulator tool for parallel systems is presented. The simulator is embedded into an integrated parallel program development environment in which parallel applications based on the message-passing programming paradigm can be designed by graphical means. It is a discrete event simulator that uses a synthetic description of a parallel application and that of a parallel architecture. Synthetic model of the application is extracted from the real application code automatically although, some of the required parameters must be supplied by the user manually. The simulator also takes into account a simplified model of the underlying operating system. The output of the simulation is a tracefile based on the NPICL format can be visualised and analyzed with standard tools like Paragraph. After introducing the model and the architecture of their simulation environment, the authors presents some validation results obtained during practical experiments with an image convolution application.