[GridSim-developers] GridSim Toolkit 4.1 is released

[Anthony S. <an...@cs...>]

Gridbus Project to Release GridSim Toolkit 4.1
September 2007


The Gridbus Project at The University of Melbourne, Australia has released 
the
next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 4.1.

The new version of GridSim adds a new functionality that supports
resource failures and failure detection of Grid resources. This work was 
done
in collaboration with Agustin Caminero, a Phd student from
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain.

All components developed as part of the GridSim Toolkit are released as
"open source" under the GPL license to encourage innovation and pass full
freedom to our users. In addition, we have decided to use
SourceForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gridsim) for hosting
our future releases and developments. This allows us to share and
and to collaborate further on new functionalities.
Therefore, contributions to the GridSim Toolkit are greatly appreciated.

The early version of our GridSim toolkit has been used/dowloaded by 
several
academic and commercial organizations around the world including:
University of Southern California (USA), California Institute of 
Technology (USA),
Argonne National Labs (USA), University of Manchester (UK), CERN,
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela (Spain), Indian Institute of 
Technology,
Tsinghua University (China), Sun Microsystems, IBM Research, Unisys, HP,
Northrop Grumman Information Technology, British Telecom and EMC Corp.

The GridSim software has been used for modeling and simulating many
interesting systems and ideas. For example, IBM Research uses our DataGrid
package to simulate a grid meta-scheduler that tightly integrates
the compute and data transfer times of each job.
Another example is Universidad de Santiago de Compostela's extension of 
GridSim
to optimize execution of parallel applications on a Grid.
Our own uses include simulating economic Grid scheduler in a competitive
economy model, economic based cluster scheduler and cooperative Grid 
federation.

The contributors to the GridSim software (from early to new version) are:
* Rajkumar Buyya, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Manzur Murshed, GSCIT @ Monash University, Australia.
* Anthony Sulistio, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Gokul Poduval and Chen-Khong Tham,
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering @ National University of 
Singapore.
* Marcos Dias de Assuncao, GRIDS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Uros Cibej and Borut Robic, Faculty of Computer and Information Service,
The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.
* Agustin Caminero, Department of Computing Systems,
Universidad de Castilla La Mancha (UCLM), Spain.


To download the GridSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project web 
site at
http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim/

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