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+Welcome to the SimGrid project!
 
-Welcome to the SimGrid project! 
+SimGrid is a scientific instrument to study the behavior of 
+large-scale distributed systems such as Grids, Clouds, HPC or P2P
+systems. It can be used to evaluate heuristics, prototype applications 
+or even assess legacy MPI applications.
 
-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.
+More documentation is included in this archive (doc/html/index.html)
+or online at http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/ 
 
-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.
+In any case, you may want to subscribe to the user mailing list 
+(http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/mailman/listinfo/simgrid-user). There,
+you can find answers to your questions, or simply discuss with people
+doing the same kind of research than you do, in an active and friendly
+community.
 
-Thanks to have downloaded our software,
+Thanks for using our software. Please do great things with it and tell
+the world about it. Tell us, too, because we love to have positive
+feedback.
 
 Cheers,
-
 Da SimGrid Team.
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+https://travis-ci.org/mquinson/simgrid.svg?branch=master
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