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-@section ug_overview Overview of the toolkit components
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-@subsection ug_overview_envs Programming environments layer
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-SimGrid provides several programming environments built on top of a unique
-simulation kernel. Each environment targets a specific audience and
-constitutes a different paradigm. To choose which of them you want to use,
-you have to think about what you want to do and what would be the result of
-your work.
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- - If you want to study a theoretical problem and compare several
-   heuristics, you probably want to try @ref MSG_API (yet another
-   historical name). It was designed exactly to that extend and should allow
-   you to build easily rather realistic multi-agents simulation. Yet,
-   realism is not the main goal of this environment and the most annoying
-   technical issues of real platforms are masked here. Check the @ref
-   MSG_API section for more information.
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- - If you want to study the behavior of an MPI application using emulation,
-   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.
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-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
-developers mailing list, though.
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-@subsection ug_overview_kernel Simulation kernel layer
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-The core functionalities to simulate a virtual platform are provided by a
-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.
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-SURF main features are a fast max-min linear solver and the ability to
-change transparently the model used to describe the platform. This greatly
-eases the comparison of the several models existing in the literature.
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-See the @ref SURF_API section for more details.
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-@subsection ug_overview_fundation Base layer
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-The base of the whole toolkit is constituted by the @ref XBT_API
-(eXtended Bundle of Tools).
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-It is a portable library providing some grounding features such as @ref
-XBT_log, @ref XBT_ex and @ref XBT_config.
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-XBT also encompass the following convenient C data structures:
-@ref XBT_dynar and @ref XBT_dict.
-The code is being migrated in C++ so you should probably want
-to use standard C++ containers instead of them if possible.
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-It contains some C++ polyfills and utilities as well.
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-See the @ref XBT_API section for more details.
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-@subsection ug_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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