README

GridSim Toolkit

Version 2.0

Public Release on November 18, 2002 at the SC 2002 Conference, Baltimore, USA

 

Contents

Introduction

Thank you for downloading this release of the GridSim (Grid Simulation) Toolkit. GridSim is a toolkit for modeling and simulation of parallel and distributed systems such as Clusters and Grids. GridSim (2.0) toolkit, developed through the Gridbus Project, jointly sponsored by Sun Microsystems (USA), Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing (VPAC) (Melbourne, Australia) and The University of Melbourne (Australia).

The GridSim Toolkit includes:

GridSim Toolkit Documentation

For API documentation, refer to the following sources:

Installation Procedures for GridSim Toolkit

Directory Structure of GridSim Toolkit:

To install the GridSim toolkit, please perform the following steps:

  1. Uncompress the Gridsim toolkit
  2. Ensure that Java 2 SDK Version 1.4 (or above) is installed.
  3. Use JBuilder version 7.0 (or above) to execute the required project files:

List of Improvements

Improvements to be incorporated into future releases include:.

Software and License

The GridSim 2.0 software and documents are released as "open source" under the GPL license. Copyright The Gridbus Project, GRIDS Lab, The University of Melbourne, 2002.

Download GridSim 2.0

Compatibility

For compability, install the following software:

Bug Reports and Feedback

For SimJava bugs and feedback, please refer to the SimJava website.

For GridSim, GridBroker and Visual Modeler bugs and feedback, please email to raj@cs.mu.oz.au

Credits

GridSim 1.0, released in Dec. 2001, is co-developed by:

The new components/ehancements in GridSim 2.0, released in Nov. 2002, is co-developed by:

Links

For additional information, please refer to the following websites: