being realistic and is application-oriented. It is the software layer
of choice for building simulation with multiple scheduling agents.
-\li GRAS (<em>not functionnal yet</em>) is an ongoing project to emulate virtual virtual platforms
- through SURF. As a consequence a code developped using the GRAS
+\li GRAS (<em>not functionnal yet</em>) is an ongoing project to emulate virtual
+ virtual platforms through SURF. As a consequence a code developped using the GRAS
framework is able to run as well in the real-world as in the
- simulator. If you intend to use MSG in a very intensive way
- (e.g. for simulating a peer-to-peer environment), you may want to
- switch to GRAS.
+ simulator. The resulting code is very portable and highly interoperable while
+ remaining very efficient. Even if you do not plan to run your code for real,
+ you may want to switch to GRAS if you intend to use MSG in a very intensive way
+ (e.g. for simulating a peer-to-peer environment).
-\li SMPI (<em>not functionnal yet</em>) is an ongoing project to enable MPI code to run on top of a
- virtual platform through SURF. It follows the same principle as
+\li SMPI (<em>not functionnal yet</em>) is an ongoing project to enable MPI code
+ to run on top of a virtual platform through SURF. It follows the same principle as
the ones used in GRAS but is specific to MPI applications.
+Here is a figure the depicts the relation between those different modules.
+<center>
+\htmlonly
+<img align=center src="simgrid_modules.jpg" alt="SimGrid"><br>
+\endhtmlonly
+</center>
+
The section \ref publications contains links to papers that provide
additional details on the project as well as validation and
experimental results.
-The software can be downloaded from <a href="http://gcl.ucsd.edu/SimGrid/dl/">here</a>.
+The software can be downloaded from <a href="http://gcl.ucsd.edu/simgrid/dl/">here</a>.
\section install Installation
\section documentation API Documentation
-The API of all different modules is described in \ref SimGrid_API.
-
-See \ref SimGrid_examples for an introduction on the way to use these modules.
+The API of all different modules is described <a href="API/html/modules.html">here</a>.
+See <a href="examples/html/modules.html">here</a> for an introduction on the way to use these modules.
\section users_contributers Users / Contributers
