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\endhtmlonly
+\section hot_news HOT NEWS
+
+SimGrid 2.95 (aka SimGrid 3beta2) was released on 1st July 2005. Get it from
+here.
+SimGrid 3 was never as close as it is now...
+
\section quick Quick start
SimGrid is a toolkit that provides core functionalities for the simulation
@@ -17,8 +23,10 @@ Grids.
\subsection quick_dl Getting and installing the software
-The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from
-here.
+ - The official webpage is simgrid.gforge.inria.fr.
+ - The development webpage is gforge.inria.fr/projects/simgrid.
+ - The user mailing list is
+ - The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from here.
To compile and install it, simply type the following. If you are not
familiar with compiling C files under UNIX and using libraries, please check
@@ -32,17 +40,16 @@ pre-compiled binaries [yet].
\subsection quick_more More information
-The API is described here while
-this page presents some example of
-use.
+The API (along with some example of
+use) is described in \ref SimGrid_API.
For more information about the SimGrid toolkit, please simply keep reading
this page. It is organized as follow:
- - \ref overview: Presentation of the toolkit, of each of its components
+ - \ref overview : Presentation of the toolkit, of each of its components
and of their interactions.
- - \ref people: Who is behind this project.
- - \ref publications: Some articles providing more details about the
+ - \ref people : Who is behind this project.
+ - \ref publications : Some articles providing more details about the
SimGrid toolkit or using and validating it.
@@ -50,7 +57,7 @@ this page. It is organized as follow:
\section overview Overview of the toolkit components
As depicted by the following schema, the SimGrid toolkit is basically
-three-layered.
+three-layered (click on the picture to jump to a specific component).
\htmlonly
@@ -68,9 +75,9 @@ The basement of the whole toolkit is constituted by the \ref XBT_API
(eXtended Bundle of Tools).
It is a portable library providing some grounding features such as \ref
-XBT_log and \ref XBT_error. XBT also encompass the following convenient
-datastructures: \ref XBT_dynar, \ref XBT_fifo, \ref XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap,
-\ref XBT_set and \ref XBT_swag.
+XBT_log, \ref XBT_ex, \ref XBT_error and \ref XBT_config. XBT also encompass
+the following convenient datastructures: \ref XBT_dynar, \ref XBT_fifo, \ref
+XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap, \ref XBT_set and \ref XBT_swag.
See the \ref XBT_API section for more details.
@@ -125,10 +132,12 @@ want to do and what would be the result of your work.
If your favorite programming environment/model is not there (BSP,
components, etc.) is not represented in the SimGrid toolkit yet, you may
-consider adding it. You should contact us first, though.
+consider adding it. You should contact us first on the
+SimGrid
+developers mailing list, though.
Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the
-SimGrid users
+SimGrid users
mailing list.
@@ -139,7 +148,7 @@ The authors of SimGrid are:
- Henri Casanova
- Arnaud Legrand
- - Martin Quinson
+ - Martin Quinson
\subsection contributers Contributers and alumni project members
@@ -147,7 +156,7 @@ The authors of SimGrid are:
bandwidth-sharing.
- Julien Lerouge : wrote a XML parser for ENV descriptions and helped for
the general design during a 4 month period (march-june 2002)
- in the SimGrid: A
-Toolkit for the Simulation of Application Scheduling by Henri Casanova,
-even if it's a bit old now. We are activly working on improving this.
+When citing SimGrid, the prefered reference paper is Scheduling
+Distributed Applications: the SimGrid Simulation Framework, even if it's
+a bit old now. We are actively working on improving this.
\subsection simulation About simulation
@@ -275,25 +284,26 @@ even if it's a bit old now. We are activly working on improving this.
\subsection research Papers using SimGrid results
-\li Optimal algorithms for scheduling divisible workloads on
+\li A study of meta-scheduling architectures for high throughput
+ computing: Pull vs. Push\n
+ by Vincent Garonne, Andrei Tsaregorodtsev, and Eddy Caron \n
+ Proceedings of 4th Internationnal Symposium on Parallel and
+ Distributed Computing Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel
+ Processing (ISPDC'05), July 2005.\n
+ Preliminary version in http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/Pub/Rapports/RR/RR2005/RR2005-27.pdf
+
+\li Exploiting Replication and Data Reuse to Efficiently Schedule
+ Data-intensive Applications on Grids\n
+ by E. Santos-Neto, W. Cirne, F. Brasileiro, A. Lima.\n
+ Proceedings of 10th Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing, June 2004.\n
+ http://www.lsd.ufcg.edu.br/~elizeu/articles/jsspp.v6.pdf
+
+\li Optimal algorithms for scheduling divisible workloads on
heterogeneous systems\n
by Olivier Beaumont and Arnaud Legrand and Yves Robert\n
- In this paper, we discuss several algorithms for scheduling
- divisible loads on heterogeneous systems. Our main contributions
- are (i) new optimality results for single-round algorithms and (ii)
- the design of an asymptotically optimal multi-round algorithm. This
- multi-round algorithm automatically performs resource selection, a
- difficult task that was previously left to the user. Because it is
- periodic, it is simpler to implement, and more robust to changes in
- the speeds of processors or communication links. On the theoretical
- side, to the best of our knowledge, this is the first published
- result assessing the absolute performance of a multi-round
- algorithm. On the practical side, extensive simulations reveal
- that our multi-round algorithm outperforms existing solutions on a
- large variety of platforms, especially when the
- communication-to-computation ratio is not very high (the difficult
- case).\n
- ftp://ftp.ens-lyon.fr/pub/LIP/Rapports/RR/RR2002/RR2002-36.ps.gz
+ in Proceedings of the 17th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'03).\n
+ Preliminary version on ftp://ftp.ens-lyon.fr/pub/LIP/Rapports/RR/RR2002/RR2002-36.ps.gz
+
\li On-line Parallel Tomography\n
by Shava Smallen\n
Masters Thesis, UCSD, May 2001