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+ SimGrid - Scalable simulation of distributed systems, ranging from grids to peer-to-peer systems + +\endhtmlonly +\htmlinclude .index.doc.toc +\htmlonly +
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Relationships between the SimGrid components (click to jump to API) \endhtmlonly +\htmlonly \endhtmlonly \subsection overview_envs Programmation environments layer -SimGrid provides several programmation environments built on top of a uniq +SimGrid provides several programmation environments built on top of a unique simulation kernel. Each environment targets a specific audiance 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 @@ -76,7 +89,7 @@ your work. See the \ref GRAS_API section for more details. If your favorite programming environment/model is not there (BSP, -components, DAG, etc.) is not represented in the SimGrid toolkit yet, you may +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. @@ -84,7 +97,7 @@ developers mailing list, though. \subsection overview_kernel Simulation kernel layer The core functionnalities to simulate a virtual platform are provided by a -module called \ref SURF_API ("that's historical, my friend"). It is +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. @@ -107,40 +120,24 @@ XBT_dict, \ref XBT_heap, \ref XBT_set and \ref XBT_swag. See the \ref XBT_API section for more details. -Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the -SimGrid users -mailing list. -\htmlonly \endhtmlonly - -
- -\section people People - -SimGrid is a joint project between University of Hawai at Manoa, ID -Laboratory (Grenoble, France) and University of Nancy (France). The -authors of SimGrid are: +\htmlonly \endhtmlonly +
+The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from +here.
- - Henri Casanova (Information and Computer Sciences Department, University of Hawai`i at Manoa) - - Arnaud Legrand ("Informatique et Distribution" Laboratory (Grenoble, France), MESCal project) - - Martin Quinson (University of Nancy I (Nancy, France), LORIA Laboratory, Algorille project) +If you are interested in the history of SimGrid and in current and planned development, +you can find out more here. -\subsection contributers Contributers and alumni project members +Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the +SimGrid users +mailing list. - - Loris Marchal: wrote the algorithm for simulation TCP 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 LIP. - - Clément Menier and Marc Perache : wrote a first prototype of the MSG - interface during a project at ENS-Lyon (jan 2002). - - Dmitrii Zagorodnov : wrote some parts of the first version of SimGrid - (1999). +\htmlonly \endhtmlonly
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