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released a very comparable tool, and called it GridG.
-\subsubsection faq_SURF_dynamic Expressing dynamic resource availability in platform files
+\subsubsection faq_SURF_multicore Modeling multi-core resources
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+There is currently no native support for multi-core or SMP machines in
+SimGrid. We are currently working on it, but coming up with the right
+model is very hard: Cores share caches and bus to access memory and
+thus interfere with each others. Memory contention is a crucial
+component of multi-core modeling.
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+In the meanwhile, some user-level tricks can reveal sufficient for
+you. For example, you may model each core by a CPU and add some very
+high speed links between them. This complicates a bit the user code
+since you have to remember that when you assign something to a (real)
+host, it can be any of the (fake) hosts representing the cores of a
+given machine. For that, you can use the prop tag of the XML files as
+follows. Your code should then look at the âmachineâ property
+associated with each workstation, and run parallel tasks over all
+cores of the machine.
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+\subsubsection faq_SURF_dynamic Modeling dynamic resource availability
A nice feature of SimGrid is that it enables you to seamlessly have
resources whose availability change over time. When you build a