SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} is a simulation
framework to sudy the behavior of large-scale distributed systems. As its name
says, it emanates from the grid computing community, but is nowadays used to
-study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems.
-%- open source, developped since 1999, one of the major solution in the field
-%
+study grids, clouds, HPC or peer-to-peer systems. The early versions of SimGrid
+date from 1999, but it's still actively developped and distributed as an open
+source software. Today, it's one of the major generic tools in the field of
+simulation for large-scale distributed systems.
+
SimGrid provides several programming interfaces: MSG to simulate Concurrent
Sequential Processes, SimDAG to simulate DAGs of (parallel) tasks, and SMPI to
run real applications written in MPI~\cite{MPI}. Apart from the native C
interface, SimGrid provides bindings for the C++, Java, Lua and Ruby programming
languages. The SMPI interface supports applications written in C or Fortran,
-with little or no modifications.
-%- implements most of MPI-2 \cite{ref} standard [CHECK]
+with little or no modifications. SMPI implements about \np[\%]{80} of the MPI
+2.0 standard~\cite{bedaride:hal-00919507}.
%%% explain simulation
%- simulated processes folded in one real process
%%% validation + refs
-\AG{Décrire SimGrid~\cite{casanova+legrand+quinson.2008.simgrid,SimGrid} (Arnaud)}
-
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\section{Simulation of the multisplitting method}
%Décrire le problème (algo) traité ainsi que le processus d'adaptation à SimGrid.
