\section ug_overview Overview of the toolkit components
-\subsection ug_overview_envs Programmation environments layer
+\subsection ug_overview_envs Programing environments layer
-SimGrid provides several programmation environments built on top of a unique
-simulation kernel. Each environment targets a specific audiance and
+SimGrid provides several programming environments built on top of a unique
+simulation kernel. Each environment targets a specific audience and
constitutes a different paradigm. To choose which of them you want to use,
you have to think about what you want to do and what would be the result of
your work.
- - If you want to study a theoritical problem and compare several
+ - If you want to study a theoretical problem and compare several
heuristics, you probably want to try <b>\ref MSG_API</b> (yet another
historical name). It was designed exactly to that extend and should allow
you to build easily rather realistic multi-agents simulation. Yet,
technical issues of real platforms are masked here. Check the \ref
MSG_API section for more information.
- - If you want to study the behaviour of a MPI application using emulation
- technics, you should have a look at the <b>\ref SMPI_API</b> (Simulated
+ - If you want to study the behavior of a MPI application using emulation,
+ you should have a look at the <b>\ref SMPI_API</b> (Simulated
MPI) programming environment. Unfortunately, this work is still underway.
Check the \ref SMPI_API section for more information.
\subsection ug_overview_kernel Simulation kernel layer
-The core functionnalities to simulate a virtual platform are provided by a
+The core functionalities to simulate a virtual platform are provided by a
module called <b>\ref SURF_API</b>. It is
very low-level and is not intended to be used as such by end-users. Instead,
it serve as a basis for the higher level layer.
SURF main features are a fast max-min linear solver and the ability to
change transparently the model used to describe the platform. This greatly
-eases the comparison of the several models existing in the litterature.
+eases the comparison of the several models existing in the literature.
See the \ref SURF_API section for more details.
-\subsection ug_overview_fondation Base layer
+\subsection ug_overview_fundation Base layer
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 and \ref XBT_config.
-XBT also encompass the following convenient C datastructures:
+XBT also encompass the following convenient C data structures:
\ref XBT_dynar, \ref XBT_fifo, \ref XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap, \ref XBT_set and
\ref XBT_swag. The code is being migrated in C++ so you should probably want
to use standard C++ containers instead of them if possible.
-It contains some C++ polyfills and utilies as well.
+It contains some C++ polyfills and utilities as well.
See the \ref XBT_API section for more details.
