Incorporate first answers to reviewers.

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@@ -42,20 +42,42 @@ AUTHORS: Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa, David Laiymani, Arnaud Giersch,
 
 
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-The contribution of the paper could be better described.
-
-The authors state that:
-
-"we show that SimGrid is an efficient simulation
-tool that has enabled .."
-
-If this is one of the goals of the paper to present the
-capabilities/strength of SimGrid, then they should compare it with
-other tools for the comparison of the two methods.
-
-Regarding the comparison of the two methods, the possible scalability
-expected in the case of larger platforms might also be commended /
-discussed.
+,----
+| The contribution of the paper could be better described.
+| 
+| The authors state that:
+| 
+| "we show that SimGrid is an efficient simulation
+| tool that has enabled .."
+| 
+| If this is one of the goals of the paper to present the
+| capabilities/strength of SimGrid, then they should compare it with
+| other tools for the comparison of the two methods.
+`----
+
+[RCE] L’objectif du papier n’est pas de comparer des outils de
+      simulation et d’arriver à une conclusion sur la performance de
+      Simgrid. Ce dernier a été choisi parmi d’autres pour effectuer
+      la comparaison entre les 2 algorithmes en mode async sur un
+      environnement de grille distribuée.
+
+      On peut modifier la phrase comme suit : "we show that SimGrid is
+      one of efficient simulation tool that has enabled .."
+
+
+,----
+| Regarding the comparison of the two methods, the possible scalability
+| expected in the case of larger platforms might also be commended /
+| discussed.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Je pense que ça a été commenté / discuté tout au long du papier
+      cette montée en charge possible sur des plateformes plus
+      larges. Même dans la conclusion, on a avancé que l’objectif est
+      de réussir à faire tourner le programme sur une plateforme plus
+      large (en terme de nombre de cœurs et de nombre de clusters)
+      mais aussi de pouvoir résoudre des problèmes de plus grande
+      taille.

 
 
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@@ -66,53 +88,119 @@ AUTHORS: Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa, David Laiymani, Arnaud Giersch,
 
 
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-This paper describes the simulation of an adapted (authors say
-slightly changed) GMRES solver on the SimGrid simulation framework;
-the GMRES solver is changed from synchronous iterative solution to a
-asynchronous iteration scheme in order to overcome latencies when
-interconnecting computers in a Grid environment.
-
-The prejudice of the paper is that the GMRES algorithm is not using
-non-blocking communication to begin with.
-
-
-You mention that for running with SimGrid using SMPI, "little" or no
-modification need to be done to the original code: what kind of
-modifications are necessary -- and did You have to apply any
-modification to run with SMPI?  (in a later section of the paper,
-changing / deleting global variables were mentioned -- due to the
-threaded execution of simulated MPI processes...)
-
-
-SimGrid uses a "fluid model" -- what does that mean?
-
-The local convergence criterion (k<=MaxIter) seams wrong and should
-rather read: k == MaxIter?
-
-As far as the reviewer can tell, SMPI removes heavy computation by
-making assumptions on the CPU performance of the simulated code --
-which however is not true with most Grid environments where You do
-have mixed architectures and mixed performance characteristics.  How
-is this handled?
-
-However, the main gripe about this paper is the rather unrealistic
-assumption on bandwidth (5 Mbps!) and latency (20ms): the internal
-network of a cluster may be Infiniband, with bw of Gigabytes/sec and
-micro-second latency, while a second cluster may be reachable over
-Gigabit-Ethernet with 100-200x the latency... This would be a setup,
-where a (even slight) gain would provide more convincing results.
-
-
-
-Some knitpicks include:
-- Abstract: "Behaviours", please no plural
-- Sec II (and others): "As exposed" --> "As described"
-- Sec II: "And important idle times" --> better "useless idle times
-  used for synchronization"
-- Sec III: "by the mean of an XML file" --> "by means of an XML file".
-- SEC IV.B: did not encouter ... unless some code debugging" -->
-  please rewrite the unless part...
-- SEC V: "Hosts processors power" --> "Host processor power"
+,----
+| This paper describes the simulation of an adapted (authors say
+| slightly changed) GMRES solver on the SimGrid simulation framework;
+| the GMRES solver is changed from synchronous iterative solution to a
+| asynchronous iteration scheme in order to overcome latencies when
+| interconnecting computers in a Grid environment.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Non, ce n’est pas tout à fait ça : on veut comparer l’algo GMRES
+      qui est executé en mode SYNC avec l’algo de multisplitting qui
+      lui sera executé en mode ASYNC.
+
+,----
+| The prejudice of the paper is that the GMRES algorithm is not using
+| non-blocking communication to begin with.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Comme dit juste plus haut, effectivement GMRES est resté SYNC
+      donc en mode de communication bloquant.
+
+
+,----
+| You mention that for running with SimGrid using SMPI, "little" or no
+| modification need to be done to the original code: what kind of
+| modifications are necessary -- and did You have to apply any
+| modification to run with SMPI?  (in a later section of the paper,
+| changing / deleting global variables were mentioned -- due to the
+| threaded execution of simulated MPI processes...)
+`----
+
+[RCE] Les changements “mineurs” apportés sur le code lors de
+      l’exécution dans Simgrid/SMPI par rapport à un lancement sur un
+      environnement réel (MPI) se résument aux deux points suivants :
+      - Toutes les variables globales ont été ramenées dans un scope
+        local aux fonctions. Cette modification a entraîné le
+        changement des définitions synoptiques des fonctions pour
+        prendre en compte les passages de variables.
+      - La sequence MPI_ISend, MPI_Irecv and MPI_Waitall a pose aussi
+        un problème en mode Async. Elle a été remplacée par une
+        sequence de 6 Isend/Irecv/Wait à la place.
+ 
+      On peut donc faire un renvoi à la Section III pour clarifier :
+      « The SMPI interface implements about 80% of the MPI 2.0
+        standard [?]  and supports applications written in C or
+        Fortran, with little or no modifications. »
+      On écrira :
+      « The SMPI interface implements about 80% of the MPI 2.0
+        standard [?]  and supports applications written in C or
+        Fortran, with little or no modifications. (cf Section IV
+        paragraph B) »
+
+
+,----
+| SimGrid uses a "fluid model" -- what does that mean?
+`----
+
+[RCE] Arnaud peut-il aider ici ?
+ [AG] Je fais.
+
+,----
+| The local convergence criterion (k<=MaxIter) seams wrong and should
+| rather read: k == MaxIter?
+`----
+
+[RCE] Je pense que le reviewer a raison. Lilia ?
+
+,----
+| As far as the reviewer can tell, SMPI removes heavy computation by
+| making assumptions on the CPU performance of the simulated code --
+| which however is not true with most Grid environments where You do
+| have mixed architectures and mixed performance characteristics.  How
+| is this handled?
+`----
+
+[RCE] Simgrid/SMPI prévoit cette hétérogénéité des composants des
+      clusters dans une grille par la définition plus ou moins fine
+      des caractéristiques des nœuds composant les clusters (puissance
+      CPU, mémoire RAM, …) d’une part mais aussi par la description
+      plus ou moins détaillée aussi du réseau de communication entre
+      les clusters de la grille.
+
+,----
+| However, the main gripe about this paper is the rather unrealistic
+| assumption on bandwidth (5 Mbps!) and latency (20ms): the internal
+| network of a cluster may be Infiniband, with bw of Gigabytes/sec and
+| micro-second latency, while a second cluster may be reachable over
+| Gigabit-Ethernet with 100-200x the latency... This would be a setup,
+| where a (even slight) gain would provide more convincing results.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Il faut qu’on précise que ces caractéristiques de réseau “non
+      réalistes” concernent le réseau INTER cluster. Le réseau INTRA
+      cluster sont bien dans l’ordre de grandeur donnée (Gbps de bw et
+      ms de latence). Toutefois, le reviewer a bien vu qu’on a poussé
+      trop fort sur le réseau inter-cluster ☺ Mais ce n’est qu’à ce
+      prix qu’on a commencé à avoir un gain appréciable.
+
+
+
+,----
+| Some knitpicks include:
+| - Abstract: "Behaviours", please no plural
+| - Sec II (and others): "As exposed" --> "As described"
+| - Sec II: "And important idle times" --> better "useless idle times
+|   used for synchronization"
+| - Sec III: "by the mean of an XML file" --> "by means of an XML file".
+| - SEC IV.B: did not encouter ... unless some code debugging" -->
+|   please rewrite the unless part...
+| - SEC V: "Hosts processors power" --> "Host processor power"
+`----
+
+[RCE] On va prendre en compte ces remarques.
+ [AG] J'ai commencé pour les plus faciles.

 
 
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@@ -123,49 +211,71 @@ AUTHORS: Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa, David Laiymani, Arnaud Giersch,
 
 
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-The submitted paper purports to be the first simulation of
-asynchronous iterative algorithms and predicts that, for a particular
-cluster configurations with very high latency (20ms) and very low
-bandwidths (5/50 Mbit/s), an unpreconditioned asynchronous
-multisplitting algorithm will be faster than an unpreconditioned GMRES
-algorithm for solving a 3D Poisson equation.
-
-Several issues with respect to the relevance of these results deserve
-discussion:
-
-1) There is no substantial discussion of the fundamental additions to
-SimGrid that were required in order to support the simulation of
-asynchronous iterative algorithms. If no extensions were required,
-then I am unsure as to how this aspect of the work is a contribution.
-
-2) The model problem of a 3D Poisson equation with no preconditioner
-is regrettable due to the large number of fast solvers available that
-have been available for many decades. For this reason, as is, the
-results are not relevant to the solution of PDEs. However, a similar
-computational structure appears within the context of gradient descent
-methods for the solution of convex optimization problems, and
-asynchronous algorithms are quite common. I would humbly suggest such
-a model problem in the future unless either a more challenging PDE is
-tackled or a non-trivial preconditioner is incorporated.
-
-3) This is somewhat of a minor point, but I did not see an explicit
-discussion of the link between a global relative residual norm,
-|| A x - b|| / || b ||, and the local convergence criterion used in
-the asynchronous algorithm, which tested for the infinity norm of the
-local computation. When "precision" is reported in Table I, is it
-referring to a consistent global convergence criterion? And, if so,
-what is it precisely referring to?
-
-4) Typical latencies within clusters are on the order of a
-microsecond, and the latency used to produce Table I is more than
-three orders of magnitude higher (20ms). It would be helpful if more
-justification was given for why such a high latency is
-relevant. Furthermore, the chosen bandwidths (5 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s)
-are closer to a non-commercial home internet connection than a
-commercial ethernet connection.
-
-Overall, I feel that a significant number of issues should be
-addressed before publication would be warranted.
+,----
+| The submitted paper purports to be the first simulation of
+| asynchronous iterative algorithms and predicts that, for a particular
+| cluster configurations with very high latency (20ms) and very low
+| bandwidths (5/50 Mbit/s), an unpreconditioned asynchronous
+| multisplitting algorithm will be faster than an unpreconditioned GMRES
+| algorithm for solving a 3D Poisson equation.
+| 
+| Several issues with respect to the relevance of these results deserve
+| discussion:
+| 
+| 1) There is no substantial discussion of the fundamental additions to
+| SimGrid that were required in order to support the simulation of
+| asynchronous iterative algorithms. If no extensions were required,
+| then I am unsure as to how this aspect of the work is a contribution.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Il n’y avait pas d’extensions apportées à SIMGRID pour résoudre
+      le type d’algorithme choisi.
+
+,----
+| 2) The model problem of a 3D Poisson equation with no preconditioner
+| is regrettable due to the large number of fast solvers available that
+| have been available for many decades. For this reason, as is, the
+| results are not relevant to the solution of PDEs. However, a similar
+| computational structure appears within the context of gradient descent
+| methods for the solution of convex optimization problems, and
+| asynchronous algorithms are quite common. I would humbly suggest such
+| a model problem in the future unless either a more challenging PDE is
+| tackled or a non-trivial preconditioner is incorporated.
+`----
+
+[RCE] ??
+
+,----
+| 3) This is somewhat of a minor point, but I did not see an explicit
+| discussion of the link between a global relative residual norm,
+| || A x - b|| / || b ||, and the local convergence criterion used in
+| the asynchronous algorithm, which tested for the infinity norm of the
+| local computation. When "precision" is reported in Table I, is it
+| referring to a consistent global convergence criterion? And, if so,
+| what is it precisely referring to?
+`----
+
+[RCE] Selon ma comprehension, la “precision” de la table I est la
+      “tolerance threshold” (epsilon) mentionnée dans la Section
+      IV. Il permet effectivement de determiner le critère ou la
+      condition de convergence globale. Lilia peut confirmer ?
+
+,----
+| 4) Typical latencies within clusters are on the order of a
+| microsecond, and the latency used to produce Table I is more than
+| three orders of magnitude higher (20ms). It would be helpful if more
+| justification was given for why such a high latency is
+| relevant. Furthermore, the chosen bandwidths (5 Mbit/s and 50 Mbit/s)
+| are closer to a non-commercial home internet connection than a
+| commercial ethernet connection.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Voir remarques plus haut.
+
+,----
+| Overall, I feel that a significant number of issues should be
+| addressed before publication would be warranted.
+`----

 
 
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@@ -176,12 +286,16 @@ AUTHORS: Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa, David Laiymani, Arnaud Giersch,
 
 
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-This is a very interesting paper devoted to the implementation in a
-grid environment of some asynchronous algorithm. These algorithms are
-indeed very powerfull, and the more latency, the more efficient are
-these algorithms. A comparison of a synchronous GMRES and an
-asynchronous multi-splitting is presented. The obtained results are
-interesting and confirm the efficiency of these methods.
+,----
+| This is a very interesting paper devoted to the implementation in a
+| grid environment of some asynchronous algorithm. These algorithms are
+| indeed very powerfull, and the more latency, the more efficient are
+| these algorithms. A comparison of a synchronous GMRES and an
+| asynchronous multi-splitting is presented. The obtained results are
+| interesting and confirm the efficiency of these methods.
+`----
+
+[RCE] Bien compris.

 
 
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@@ -192,8 +306,8 @@ AUTHORS: Charles Emile Ramamonjisoa, David Laiymani, Arnaud Giersch,
 
 
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-This paper is a mix between a short and a long paper, it presents
-preliminary works on simulation of asynchronous iterative algorithms
-using SimGrid. I recommend to accept it as a short paper.
-
-
+,----
+| This paper is a mix between a short and a long paper, it presents
+| preliminary works on simulation of asynchronous iterative algorithms
+| using SimGrid. I recommend to accept it as a short paper.
+`----