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The S4U interface (SimGrid for you) mixes the full power of SimGrid
-with the full power of C++. This is the prefered interface to describe
-abstract algorithms in the domains of Cloud, P2P, HPC, IoT and similar
+with the full power of C++. This is the preferred interface to describe
+abstract algorithms in the domains of Cloud, P2P, HPC, IoT, and similar
settings.
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and other |Activities|_, so that they get reflected within the
simulator. These activities take place on resources such as |Hosts|_,
|Links|_ and |Storages|_. SimGrid predicts the time taken by each
-activity and orchestrates accordingly the actors waiting for the
+activity and orchestrates the actors accordingly, waiting for the
completion of these activities.
When **communicating**, data is not directly sent to other actors but
-posted onto a |Mailbox|_ that serve as rendez-vous point between
+posted onto a |Mailbox|_ that serves as a rendez-vous point between
communicating actors. This means that you don't need to know who you
are talking to, you just put your communication `Put` request in a
mailbox, and it will be matched with a complementary `Get`
- :ref:`class s4u::Link <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Link>`
Interconnecting hosts.
- :ref:`class s4u::NetZone <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1NetZone>`:
- Sub-region of the platform, containing resources (Hosts, Link, etc).
+ Sub-region of the platform, containing resources (Hosts, Links, etc).
- :ref:`class s4u::Storage <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Storage>`
Resource on which actors can write and read data.
- :ref:`class s4u::VirtualMachine <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1VirtualMachine>`:
Activities
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-Activities represent the actions that consumes a resource, such as
+Activities represent the actions that consume a resource, such as a
:ref:`s4u::Comm <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Comm>` that
consumes the *transmiting power* of :ref:`s4u::Link
<exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Link>` resources.
completion of that communication. Asynchronous communications do not
block the actor during their execution but progress on their own.
-Once your asynchronous activity is started, you can test for
+Once your asynchronous activity is started, you can test for its
completion using :cpp:func:`s4u::Activity::test() <simgrid::s4u::Activity::test>`.
This function returns ``true`` if the activity completed already.
You can also use :cpp:func:`s4u::Activity::wait() <simgrid::s4u::Activity::wait>`
-to block until the completion of the activity. To wait at most for a given period,
+to block until the completion of the activity. To wait for at most a given amount of time,
use :cpp:func:`s4u::Activity::wait_for() <simgrid::s4u::Activity::wait_for>`.
Finally, to wait at most until a specified time limit, use
:cpp:func:`s4u::Activity::wait_until() <simgrid::s4u::Activity::wait_until>`.
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-You then start all communications that should occur concurrently with
+Then, you start all the communications that should occur concurrently with
:cpp:func:`s4u::Mailbox::put_async() <simgrid::s4u::Mailbox::put_async>`.
Finally, the actor waits for the completion of all of them at once
with
