+\subsection{Simulation of two-stage methods using SimGrid framework}
+\label{sec:04.02}
+
+One of our objectives when simulating the application in Simgrid is, as in real
+life, to get accurate results (solutions of the problem) but also ensure the
+test reproducibility under the same conditions. According to our experience,
+very few modifications are required to adapt a MPI program for the Simgrid
+simulator using SMPI (Simulator MPI). The first modification is to include SMPI
+libraries and related header files (smpi.h). The second modification is to
+suppress all global variables by replacing them with local variables or using a
+Simgrid selector called "runtime automatic switching"
+(smpi/privatize\_global\_variables). Indeed, global variables can generate side
+effects on runtime between the threads running in the same process, generated by
+Simgrid to simulate the grid environment. \RC{On vire cette phrase ?} \RCE {Si c'est la phrase d'avant sur les threads, je pense qu'on peut la retenir car c'est l'explication du pourquoi Simgrid n'aime pas les variables globales. Si c'est pas bien dit, on peut la reformuler. Si c'est la phrase ci-apres, effectivement, on peut la virer si elle preterais a discussion}The
+last modification on the MPI program pointed out for some cases, the review of
+the sequence of the MPI\_Isend, MPI\_Irecv and MPI\_Waitall instructions which
+might cause an infinite loop.
+
+
+\paragraph{Simgrid Simulator parameters}
+\ \\ \noindent Before running a Simgrid benchmark, many parameters for the
+computation platform must be defined. For our experiments, we consider platforms
+in which several clusters are geographically distant, so there are intra and
+inter-cluster communications. In the following, these parameters are described:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item hostfile: hosts description file.
+ \item platform: file describing the platform architecture: clusters (CPU power,
+\dots{}), intra cluster network description, inter cluster network (bandwidth bw,
+latency lat, \dots{}).
+ \item archi : grid computational description (number of clusters, number of
+nodes/processors for each cluster).
+\end{itemize}
+\noindent
+In addition, the following arguments are given to the programs at runtime:
+
+\begin{itemize}
+ \item maximum number of inner and outer iterations;
+ \item inner and outer precisions;
+ \item maximum number of the gmres's restarts in the Arnorldi process;
+ \item maximum number of iterations qnd the tolerance threshold in classical GMRES;
+ \item tolerance threshold for outer and inner-iterations;
+ \item matrix size (N$_{x}$, N$_{y}$ and N$_{z}$) respectively on x, y, z axis;
+ \item matrix diagonal value = 6.0 for synchronous Krylov multisplitting experiments and 6.2 for asynchronous block Jacobi experiments; \RC{CE tu vérifies, je dis ca de tête}
+ \item matrix off-diagonal value;
+ \item execution mode: synchronous or asynchronous;
+ \RCE {C'est ok la liste des arguments du programme mais si Lilia ou toi pouvez preciser pour les arguments pour CGLS ci dessous}
+ \item Size of matrix S;
+ \item Maximum number of iterations and tolerance threshold for CGLS.
+\end{itemize}
+
+It should also be noticed that both solvers have been executed with the Simgrid selector -cfg=smpi/running\_power which determines the computational power (here 19GFlops) of the simulator host machine.
+
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
+
+\section{Experimental Results}
+\label{sec:expe}
+
+In this section, experiments for both Multisplitting algorithms are reported. First the problem used in our experiments is described.
+
+We use our two-stage algorithms to solve the well-known Poisson problem $\nabla^2\phi=f$~\cite{Polyanin01}. In three-dimensional Cartesian coordinates in $\mathbb{R}^3$, the problem takes the following form
+\begin{equation}
+\frac{\partial^2}{\partial x^2}\phi(x,y,z)+\frac{\partial^2}{\partial y^2}\phi(x,y,z)+\frac{\partial^2}{\partial z^2}\phi(x,y,z)=f(x,y,z)\mbox{~in the domain~}\Omega
+\label{eq:07}
+\end{equation}
+such that
+\begin{equation*}
+\phi(x,y,z)=0\mbox{~on the boundary~}\partial\Omega
+\end{equation*}
+where the real-valued function $\phi(x,y,z)$ is the solution sought, $f(x,y,z)$ is a known function and $\Omega=[0,1]^3$. The 3D discretization of the Laplace operator $\nabla^2$ with the finite difference scheme includes 7 points stencil on the computational grid. The numerical approximation of the Poisson problem on three-dimensional grid is repeatedly computed as $\phi=\phi^\star$ such that
+\begin{equation}
+\begin{array}{ll}
+\phi^\star(x,y,z)= & \frac{1}{6}(\phi(x-h,y,z)+\phi(x+h,y,z) \\
+ & +\phi(x,y-h,z)+\phi(x,y+h,z) \\
+ & +\phi(x,y,z-h)+\phi(x,y,z+h)\\
+ & -h^2f(x,y,z))
+\end{array}
+\label{eq:08}
+\end{equation}
+until convergence where $h$ is the grid spacing between two adjacent elements in the 3D computational grid.
+
+In the parallel context, the 3D Poisson problem is partitioned into $L\times p$ sub-problems such that $L$ is the number of clusters and $p$ is the number of processors in each cluster. We apply the three-dimensional partitioning instead of the row-by-row one in order to reduce the size of the data shared at the sub-problems boundaries. In this case, each processor is in charge of parallelepipedic sub-problem and has at most six neighbors in the same cluster or in distant clusters with which it shares data at boundaries.
+
+\subsection{Study setup and Simulation Methodology}
+
+First, to conduct our study, we propose the following methodology
+which can be reused for any grid-enabled applications.\\
+
+\textbf{Step 1}: Choose with the end users the class of algorithms or
+the application to be tested. Numerical parallel iterative algorithms
+have been chosen for the study in this paper. \\
+
+\textbf{Step 2}: Collect the software materials needed for the
+experimentation. In our case, we have two variants algorithms for the
+resolution of the 3D-Poisson problem: (1) using the classical GMRES; (2) and the Multisplitting method. In addition, the Simgrid simulator has been chosen to simulate the behaviors of the
+distributed applications. Simgrid is running on the Mesocentre datacenter in the University of Franche-Comte and also in a virtual machine on a simple laptop. \\
+
+\textbf{Step 3}: Fix the criteria which will be used for the future
+results comparison and analysis. In the scope of this study, we retain
+on the one hand the algorithm execution mode (synchronous and asynchronous)
+and on the other hand the execution time and the number of iterations to reach the convergence. \\
+
+\textbf{Step 4 }: Set up the different grid testbed environments that will be
+simulated in the simulator tool to run the program. The following architecture
+has been configured in Simgrid : 2x16, 4x8, 4x16, 8x8 and 2x50. The first number
+represents the number of clusters in the grid and the second number represents
+the number of hosts (processors/cores) in each cluster. The network has been
+designed to operate with a bandwidth equals to 10Gbits (resp. 1Gbits/s) and a
+latency of 8.10$^{-6}$ seconds (resp. 5.10$^{-5}$) for the intra-clusters links
+(resp. inter-clusters backbone links). \\
+
+\textbf{Step 5}: Conduct an extensive and comprehensive testings
+within these configurations by varying the key parameters, especially
+the CPU power capacity, the network parameters and also the size of the
+input data. \\
