X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/blobdiff_plain/bfd03c40d097a302905be66252fd30707b17dd88..4299696f4a0ac31e2758ee601f09c607ed42676a:/docs/source/application.rst?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/docs/source/application.rst b/docs/source/application.rst index b331ca0696..c3acda1d50 100644 --- a/docs/source/application.rst +++ b/docs/source/application.rst @@ -31,11 +31,16 @@ to mix several interfaces in the same simulation. MPI profilers). You can reuse this mecanism for any kind of trace that you want to replay, for example to study how a P2P DHT overlay reacts to a given workload. - - Simulating algorithms with one of the legacy interfaces: MSG and - SimDAG (in C or Java). SimGrid was founded in 1998, and many - interfaces were proposed along the way. MSG, introduced around - 2002, is still present in SimGrid. It does not evolve anymore, but - given its popularity, it will not be removed until at least 2020. + - Simulating algorithms with one of the legacy interfaces: :ref:`MSG + for distributed algorithms ` (in :ref:`C ` or + :ref:`Java `) and SimDAG for + centralized algorithms (in C). SimGrid was founded in 1998, and + many interfaces were proposed along the way. MSG (introduced + around 2002) and SimDag (introduced before 2000), are still present + in SimGrid. They do not evolve anymore, but given their popularity, + they will not be removed until at least 2020. That being said, our + goal is to make S4U so useful that these legacy APIs become useless + and obsolete. - We are currently working on the ability to modify any existing application so that it can run on top of SimGrid. This project, called `Remote-SimGrid