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+<?xml version='1.0'?>
+<!DOCTYPE platform SYSTEM "http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/simgrid/simgrid.dtd">
+<platform version="4">
+ <AS id="AS0" routing="Full">
+ <host id="alice" speed="1Gf"/> <!-- connected to an in-file speed trace -->
+ <host id="bob" speed="1Gf"/> <!-- connected to an out-file speed trace -->
+ <host id="carol" speed="500Mf" state_file="carol.fail"/> <!-- out-file state trace as attribute -->
+ <host id="dave" speed="1Gf">
+ <prop id="memory" value="1000000000"/>
+ <prop id="disk" value="80E9"/>
+ <prop id="OS" value="Linux 2.6.22-14"/>
+ </host>
+ <host id="erin" speed="500Mf" availability_file="erin.avail"/> <!--uses someone else's trace -->
+ </AS>
+
+ <trace id="myTrace" periodicity="1.0">
+ 0.0 1.0
+ 11.0 0.5
+ 20.0 0.8
+ </trace>
+
+ <trace_connect trace="myTrace" element="alice" kind="SPEED"/>
+
+ <trace id="myTrace" file="bob.trace" periodicity="1.0"/>
+ <trace_connect trace="myTrace" element="bob" kind="SPEED"/>
+</platform>