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Describing your Application
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Every SimGrid simulation entails a distributed application, that
virtually executes on the simulated platform. This application can
be either an existing MPI program (if you use the SMPI interface), or
a program specifically written to execute within SimGrid, using one of
the dedicated APIs.


.. include:: app_smpi.rst

.. include:: app_legacy.rst

.. toctree::
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      The S4U Interface <app_s4u.rst>