+@section starting_successes SimGrid Success Stories
+
+SimGrid was cited in over 1,500 scientific papers (according to Google
+Scholar). Among them
+<a href="http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/Usages.php">over 200
+publications</a> (written by about 300 individuals) use SimGrid as a
+scientific instrument to conduct their experimental evaluation. These
+numbers do not count the articles contributing to SimGrid.
+This instrument was used in many research communities, such as
+<a href="https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00580599/">High-Performance Computing</a>,
+<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CLOUD.2015.125">Cloud Computing</a>,
+<a href="http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2310096.2310195">Workflow Scheduling</a>,
+<a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01199200/">Big Data</a> and
+<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WSCAD-SSC.2012.18">MapReduce</a>,
+<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7515695/">Data Grid</a>,
+<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1569190X17301028">Volunteer Computing</a>,
+<a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01152469/">Peer-to-Peer Computing</a>,
+<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TPDS.2016.2613043">Network Architecture</a>,
+<a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7946412/">Fog Computing</a>, or
+<a href="https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-01333471">Batch Scheduling</a>
+<a href="http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/Usages.php"><b>(more info)</b></a>.
+
+If your platform description is accurate enough (see
+<a href="http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00907887">here</a> or
+<a href="https://hal.inria.fr/hal-01523608">there</a>),
+SimGrid can provide high-quality performance predictions. For example,
+we determined the speedup achieved by the Tibidabo Arm-based
+cluster before its construction
+(<a href="http://hal.inria.fr/hal-00919507">paper</a>). In this case,
+some differences between the prediction and the real timings were due to
+misconfiguration or other problems with the real platforms. To some extent,
+SimGrid could even be used to debug the real platform :)
+
+SimGrid is also used to debug, improve and tune several large
+applications.
+<a href="http://bigdft.org">BigDFT</a> (a massively parallel code
+computing the electronic structure of chemical elements developped by
+the CEA), <a href="http://starpu.gforge.inria.fr/">StarPU</a> (a
+Unified Runtime System for Heterogeneous Multicore Architectures
+developped by Inria Bordeaux) and
+<a href="https://tomp2p.net/dev/simgrid/">TomP2P</a> (a high performance
+key-value pair storage library developped at University of Zurich).
+Some of these applications enjoy large user communities themselves.
+