From: mquinson Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2009 12:46:03 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update the entry on finding more platforms now that the PDA project is up and running X-Git-Tag: SVN~1188 X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/commitdiff_plain/8a40450343bd1e2f7cd9e17f4259159a4d360fc5?ds=sidebyside;hp=115b8b236b116bdc9f9dccd0d893448719cdd7fc update the entry on finding more platforms now that the PDA project is up and running git-svn-id: svn+ssh://scm.gforge.inria.fr/svn/simgrid/simgrid/trunk@6453 48e7efb5-ca39-0410-a469-dd3cf9ba447f --- diff --git a/doc/FAQ.doc b/doc/FAQ.doc index 3db4b5094d..7b6fe39639 100644 --- a/doc/FAQ.doc +++ b/doc/FAQ.doc @@ -683,17 +683,12 @@ subtasks. There is several little examples in the archive, in the examples/msg directory. From time to time, we are asked for other files, but we -don't have any at hand right now. +don't have much at hand right now. -We do have a description of the Grid'5000 platform, but because of -some flaws in the current formalism, this file is actually 500Mb, -which is ways too big to be used in the parser. We have an internship -currently working on xml syntax improvements which will allow to -reduce the size of this file and release it. - -Once it's done, we plan to model manually other existing platforms the -same way we did for G5K and also release those files in some sort of -SimGrid platform catalog project. +You should refer to the Platform Description Archive +(http://pda.gforge.inria.fr) project to see the other platform file we +have available, as well as the Simulacrum simulator, meant to generate +SimGrid platforms using all classical generation algorithms. \subsubsection faq_platform_alnem How can I automatically map an existing platform?