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
-completion of these activities.
+completion of these activities.
When **communicating**, data is not directly sent to other actors but
Simulation engine (singleton).
- :ref:`class s4u::Mailbox <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Mailbox>`
Communication rendez-vous.
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+
- **Platform Elements**
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+
- :ref:`class s4u::Host <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Host>`:
Actor location, providing computational power.
- :ref:`class s4u::Link <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Link>`
- :ref:`class s4u::NetZone <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1NetZone>`:
Sub-region of the platform, containing resources (Hosts, Link, etc).
- :ref:`class s4u::Storage <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Storage>`
- Resource on which actors can write and read data.
+ Resource on which actors can write and read data.
- :ref:`class s4u::VirtualMachine <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1VirtualMachine>`:
Execution containers that can be moved between Hosts.
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+
- **Activities** (:ref:`class s4u::Activity <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Activity>`):
The things that actors can do on resources
Computation activity, started on Host and consuming CPU resources.
- :ref:`class s4u::Io <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Io>`
I/O activities, started on and consumming Storages.
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+
- **Synchronization Mechanisms**: Classical IPC that actors can use
-
+
- :ref:`class s4u::Barrier <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Barrier>`
- :ref:`class s4u::ConditionVariable <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1ConditionVariable>`
- :ref:`class s4u::Mutex <exhale_class_classsimgrid_1_1s4u_1_1Mutex>`
