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SimGrid is a toolkit that provides core functionalities for the simulation
of distributed applications in heterogeneous distributed environments.
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- The Frequently Asked Questions are here.
- The development webpage is gforge.inria.fr/projects/simgrid.
- The user mailing list is
- - The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from here.
+ - The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from here.
+
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Relationships between the SimGrid components
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Relationships between the SimGrid components (click to jump to API)
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\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 +79,7 @@ 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 +87,7 @@ 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.
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See the \ref XBT_API section for more details.
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+The SimGrid software package can be downloaded from
+here.
+
+If you are interested in the history of SimGrid and in current and planned development,
+you can find out more here.
+
Any question, remark or suggestion are welcome on the
-SimGrid users
+SimGrid users
mailing list.
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+
-\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:
-
- - 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 (Nancy, France), LORIA Laboratory, Algorille project)
-
-\subsection contributers Contributers and alumni project members
-
- - 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).
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