-This is the GRAS (Grid Reality And Simulation) library.
-This is a communication wrapper so that the same code can run at the same
-time in the reality using sockets and in the SimGrid simulator. See
-doc/GRAS.design for more info.
+
+Welcome to the SimGrid project!
+
+Up-to-date documentation about installation and how to use SimGrid is available
+online at http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/ and the documentation for the version
+you downloaded is available in the doc/ directory. Check doc/index.html for more
+information.
+
+In case of trouble, you can additionnally try to have a look to our user
+mailing-list ( http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/simgrid-user ) or
+post us a mail.
+
+Thanks to have downloaded our software,
+
+Cheers,
+
+Da SimGrid Team.
