Section: Software and Platforms

Distem

Participants : Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Lucas Nussbaum, Luc Sarzyniec.

Wrekavoc and Distem are distributed system emulators. They enable researchers to evaluate unmodified distributed applications on heterogeneous distributed platforms created from an homogeneous cluster: CPU performance and network characteristics are altered by the emulator.

Wrekavoc was developed until 2010, and we then focused our efforts on Distem, that shares the same goals with a different design. Distem is available from http://distem.gforge.inria.fr/ under GPLv3.

Software classification: A-3-up, SO-4, SM-3-up, EM-3, SDL-4, DA-4, CD-4, MS-4, TPM-4.