Section: Software and Platforms

SimGrid

Participants : Paul Renaud-Goud, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois [correspondant] .

SimGrid (http://simgrid.gforge.inria.fr/) is a toolkit that provides core functionalities for the simulation of distributed applications in heterogeneous distributed environments. The specific goal of the project is to facilitate research in the area of parallel and distributed large scale systems, such as Grids, P2P systems and clouds. Its use cases encompass heuristic evaluation, application prototyping or even real application devel- opment and tuning. It is based on experimentally validated models, and features very high scalability, which allows to perform very large scale simulations. It is used by over a hundred academic users all over the world, and has been used in about one hundred scientific articles.

CEPAGE has contributed to this software by participating in the management of the project and in many design decisions. As a part of the SONGS project, we also participated in the development and validation of new models and interfaces for the HPC and Cloud Computing platforms.

Software assessment : A-4, SO-4, SM-4, EM-3, SDL-5

Contribution : DA-2, CD-2, MS-2, TPM-3.