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@@ -96,20 +96,21 @@ performed. With some applications, it is difficult, if not impossible, to build
 accurate performance models. That is why another solution is to use a simulation
 tool which allows us to change many parameters of the architecture (network
 bandwidth, latency, number of processors) and to simulate the execution of such
 accurate performance models. That is why another solution is to use a simulation
 tool which allows us to change many parameters of the architecture (network
 bandwidth, latency, number of processors) and to simulate the execution of such

-applications. We have decided to use SimGrid as it enables to benchmark MPI
-applications.
+applications. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the use of a
+simulation tool (here we have decided to use the SimGrid toolkit) can really
+help developpers to better tune their applications for a given multi-core
+architecture.

 
 

-In this paper, we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based
+In particular we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based

 on the  Multisplitting algorithm  and we  compare them  to the  GMRES algorithm.
 on the  Multisplitting algorithm  and we  compare them  to the  GMRES algorithm.

-These algorithms  are used to  solve libear  systems. Two different  variants of
+These algorithms  are used to  solve linear  systems. Two different  variants of

 the Multisplitting are studied: one  using synchronoous  iterations and  another
 the Multisplitting are studied: one  using synchronoous  iterations and  another

-one  with asynchronous iterations. For each algorithm we have  tested different
-parameters to see their influence.  We strongly  recommend people  interested
-by investing  into a  new expensive  hardware  architecture  to   benchmark
-their  applications  using  a simulation tool before.
-
-
-
+one  with asynchronous iterations. For each algorithm we have simulated
+different architecture parameters to evaluate their influence on the overall
+execution time.  The obtain simulated results confirm the real results
+previously obtained on different real multi-core architectures and also confirm
+the efficiency of the asynchronous multisplitting algorithm compared to the
+synchronous GMRES method.

 
 \end{abstract}
 
 
 \end{abstract}