-iteration starts until the approximate solution is reached. These parallel computations can be performed
-either in \emph{synchronous} communication mode where a new iteration begin only when all nodes communications are
-completed, either \emph{asynchronous} mode where processors can continue independently without or few synchronization
-points.
-
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-Despite the effectiveness of iterative approach, a major drawback of the method is the requirement of huge
-resources in terms of computing capacity, storage and high speed communication network. Indeed, limited physical
-resources are blocking factors for large-scale deployment of parallel algorithms.
-
-In recent years, the use of a simulation environment to execute parallel iterative algorithms found some interests in
-reducing the highly cost of access to computing resources: (1) for the applications development life cycle and in code
-debugging (2) and in production to get results in a reasonable execution time with a simulated infrastructure not
-accessible with physical resources. Indeed, the launch of distributed iterative asynchronous algorithms to solve a
-given problem on a large-scale simulated environment challenges to find optimal configurations giving the best results
-with a lowest residual error and in the best of execution time. According our knowledge, no testing of large-scale
-simulation of the class of algorithm solving to achieve real results has been undertaken to date. We had in the scope
-of this work implemented a program for solving large non-symmetric linear system of equations by numerical method
-GMRES (Generalized Minimal Residual) in the simulation environment SimGrid. The simulated platform had allowed us to
-launch the application from a modest computing infrastructure by simulating different distributed architectures
-composed by clusters nodes interconnected by variable speed networks. In addition, it has been permitted to show the
-effectiveness of asynchronous mode algorithm by comparing its performance with the synchronous mode time. With selected
-parameters on the network platforms (bandwidth, latency of inter cluster network) and on the clusters architecture
-(number, capacity calculation power) in the simulated environment, the experimental results have demonstrated not only
-the algorithm convergence within a reasonable time compared with the physical environment performance, but also a time
-saving of up to \np[\%]{40} in asynchronous mode.
+iteration starts and until the approximate solution is reached. These parallel computations can be performed either in
+\emph{synchronous} mode where a new iteration begins only when all nodes communications are completed,
+or in \emph{asynchronous} mode where processors can continue independently with few or no synchronization points. For
+instance in the \textit{Asynchronous Iterations~-- Asynchronous Communications (AIAC)} model~\cite{bcvc06:ij}, local
+computations do not need to wait for required data. Processors can then perform their iterations with the data present
+at that time. Even if the number of iterations required before the convergence is generally greater than for the
+synchronous case, AIAC algorithms can significantly reduce overall execution times by suppressing idle times due to
+synchronizations especially in a grid computing context (see~\cite{Bahi07} for more details).
+
+Parallel numerical applications (synchronous or asynchronous) may have different
+configuration and deployment requirements. Quantifying their resource
+allocation policies and application scheduling algorithms in grid computing
+environments under varying load, CPU power and network speeds is very costly,
+very labor intensive and very time
+consuming~\cite{Calheiros:2011:CTM:1951445.1951450}. The case of AIAC
+algorithms is even more problematic since they are very sensible to the
+execution environment context. For instance, variations in the network bandwidth
+(intra and inter-clusters), in the number and the power of nodes, in the number
+of clusters\dots{} can lead to very different number of iterations and so to
+very different execution times. Then, it appears that the use of simulation
+tools to explore various platform scenarios and to run large numbers of
+experiments quickly can be very promising. In this way, the use of a simulation
+environment to execute parallel iterative algorithms found some interests in
+reducing the highly cost of access to computing resources: (1) for the
+applications development life cycle and in code debugging (2) and in production
+to get results in a reasonable execution time with a simulated infrastructure
+not accessible with physical resources. Indeed, the launch of distributed
+iterative asynchronous algorithms to solve a given problem on a large-scale
+simulated environment challenges to find optimal configurations giving the best
+results with a lowest residual error and in the best of execution time.
+
+To our knowledge, there is no existing work on the large-scale simulation of a
+real AIAC application. The aim of this paper is twofold. First we give a first
+approach of the simulation of AIAC algorithms using a simulation tool (i.e. the
+SimGrid toolkit~\cite{SimGrid}). Second, we confirm the effectiveness of
+asynchronous mode algorithms by comparing their performance with the synchronous
+mode. More precisely, we had implemented a program for solving large
+non-symmetric linear system of equations by numerical method GMRES (Generalized
+Minimal Residual) []\AG[]{[]?}. We show, that with minor modifications of the
+initial MPI code, the SimGrid toolkit allows us to perform a test campaign of a
+real AIAC application on different computing architectures. The simulated
+results we obtained are in line with real results exposed in ??\AG[]{??}.
+SimGrid had allowed us to launch the application from a modest computing
+infrastructure by simulating different distributed architectures composed by
+clusters nodes interconnected by variable speed networks. With selected
+parameters on the network platforms (bandwidth, latency of inter cluster
+network) and on the clusters architecture (number, capacity calculation power)
+in the simulated environment, the experimental results have demonstrated not
+only the algorithm convergence within a reasonable time compared with the
+physical environment performance, but also a time saving of up to \np[\%]{40} in
+asynchronous mode.