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SimGrid is a toolkit that provides core functionalities for the simulation
of distributed applications in heterogeneous distributed environments.
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Grids.
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- - The official webpage is simgrid.gforge.inria.fr.
- - The Frequently Asked Questions are here.
- - The development webpage is gforge.inria.fr/projects/simgrid.
+ - The official webpage is simgrid.gforge.inria.fr.
+ - The Frequently Asked Questions are here.
+ - The development webpage is gforge.inria.fr/projects/simgrid.
- The user mailing list is
- - The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from here.
+ - The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from here.
@@ -60,11 +70,11 @@ your work.
- If you want to study the behaviour of a MPI application using emulation
technics, you should have a look at the \ref SMPI_API (Simulated
MPI) programming environment. Unfortunately, this work is still underway.
- Check the \ref SMPI_API section for more information.
-
+ Check the \ref SMPI_API section for more information.
+
- If you want to develop a real distributed application, then you may find
\ref GRAS_API (Grid Reality And Simulation) useful. This is an API
- for the realization of distributed applications.
+ for the realization of distributed applications.
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Moreover, there is two implementations of this API: one on top of the
SURF (allowing to develop and test your application within the comfort of
@@ -80,14 +90,14 @@ your work.
If your favorite programming environment/model is not there (BSP,
components, OpenMP, etc.) is not represented in the SimGrid toolkit yet, you may
-consider adding it. You should contact us first on the
-SimGrid
+consider adding it. You should contact us first on the
+SimGrid
developers mailing list, though.
\subsection overview_kernel Simulation kernel layer
The core functionnalities to simulate a virtual platform are provided by a
-module called \ref SURF_API ("that's historical, my friend"). It is
+module called \ref SURF_API. It is
very low-level and is not intended to be used as such by end-users. Instead,
it serve as a basis for the higher level layer.
@@ -110,47 +120,27 @@ XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap, \ref XBT_set and \ref XBT_swag.
See the \ref XBT_API section for more details.
+\subsection lucas_layer Tracing simulation
+Finally, a transversal module allows you to trace your simulation. More documentation in the section \ref TRACE_doc
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-The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from
-here.
+The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from
+here.
-Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the
+If you are interested in the history of SimGrid and in current and planned development,
+you can find out more here.
+
+Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the
SimGrid users
mailing list.
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-\section people People
-
-SimGrid is a joint project between University of Hawai at Manoa, ID
-Laboratory (Grenoble, France) and University of Nancy (France). The
-authors of SimGrid are:
-
- - Henri Casanova (Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai`i at Manoa)
- - Arnaud Legrand ("Informatique et Distribution" Laboratory (Grenoble, France), MESCal project)
- - Martin Quinson (University of Nancy I (Nancy, France), LORIA Laboratory, Algorille project)
-
-\subsection contributers Contributers and alumni project members
-
- - Christophe Thiery: brought back the old SG to life with SimDag during a
- two months internship (june-july 2006) in the LORIA Lorraine.
- - Loris Marchal: designed the algorithm for simulation TCP bandwidth-sharing.
- - Julien Lerouge : wrote a XML parser for ENV descriptions and helped for
- the general design during a 4 months internship (march-june 2002)
- in the LIP.
- - Clément Menier and Marc Perache : wrote a prototype of the MSG
- interface during a project at ENS-Lyon (jan 2002).
- - Dmitrii Zagorodnov : wrote some parts of the first version of SimGrid
- (1999).
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