\section hot_news HOT NEWS
-<b>SimGrid 2.95 (aka SimGrid 3beta2) was released on 1st July 2005. Get it from
+<b>SimGrid 3.0.1 was released on 22st of October 2005. Get it from
<a href="https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=12">here</a>.</b>
-SimGrid 3 was never as close as it is now...
\section quick Quick start
\section overview Overview of the toolkit components
-As depicted by the following schema, the SimGrid toolkit is basically
+As depicted by the following diagram, the SimGrid toolkit is basically
three-layered (click on the picture to jump to a specific component).
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-\subsection overview_fondation Basement layer
+\subsection overview_fondation Base layer
-The basement of the whole toolkit is constituted by the <b>\ref XBT_API
+The base of the whole toolkit is constituted by the <b>\ref XBT_API
(eXtended Bundle of Tools)</b>.
It is a portable library providing some grounding features such as \ref
-XBT_log, \ref XBT_ex, \ref XBT_error and \ref XBT_config. XBT also encompass
+XBT_log, \ref XBT_ex and \ref XBT_config. XBT also encompass
the following convenient datastructures: \ref XBT_dynar, \ref XBT_fifo, \ref
XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap, \ref XBT_set and \ref XBT_swag.
\section people People
-The authors of SimGrid are:
+SimGrid is a joint project between University of Hawai at Manoa, ID
+Laboratory (Grenoble, France) and University of Nancy (France). The
+authors of SimGrid are:
- - Henri Casanova <casanova#cs.ucsd.edu>
- - Arnaud Legrand <arnaud.legrand#imag.fr>
- - Martin Quinson <martin.quinson#loria.fr>
+ - Henri Casanova <casanova#cs.ucsd.edu> (Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai`i at Manoa)
+ - Arnaud Legrand <arnaud.legrand#imag.fr> ("Informatique et Distribution" Laboratory (Grenoble, France), MESCal project)
+ - Martin Quinson <martin.quinson#loria.fr> (University of Nancy (Nancy, France), LORIA Laboratory, Algorille project)
\subsection contributers Contributers and alumni project members
- - Loris Marchal: wrote the new algorithm for simulation TCP
- bandwidth-sharing.
+ - Loris Marchal: wrote the algorithm for simulation TCP bandwidth-sharing.
- Julien Lerouge : wrote a XML parser for ENV descriptions and helped for
the general design during a 4 month period (march-june 2002)
in the LIP.
Proceedings of 4th Internationnal Symposium on Parallel and
Distributed Computing Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel
Processing (ISPDC'05), July 2005.\n
- Preliminary version in http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2005/RR2005-27.pdf
+ Preliminary version in http://marwww.in2p3.fr/~garonne/garonne-meta.pdf
\li <b>Exploiting Replication and Data Reuse to Efficiently Schedule
Data-intensive Applications on Grids</b>\n
