From 40338bc0164e2b5d9cc8822a0942457eb315718f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Martin Quinson Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 22:16:11 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] docs: more links to the MSG doc --- docs/source/app_msg.rst | 3 +++ docs/source/application.rst | 15 ++++++++++----- 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/source/app_msg.rst b/docs/source/app_msg.rst index e3ca7e7b50..04a3514578 100644 --- a/docs/source/app_msg.rst +++ b/docs/source/app_msg.rst @@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ systems. It can be used to build rather realistic simulations, but remains simple to use: most unpleasant technical elements can be abstracted away rather easily. +This page describes the C version of this API while the :ref:`Java +bindings of MSG ` are described in another section. + .. warning:: MSG used to be the main API of SimGrid 3, but we are currently in 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 -- 2.20.1