The USS-SimGrid project aims at Ultra Scalable Simulations with SimGrid. This tool is leader in the simulation of HPC settings, and the main goal of this project is to allow its use in the simulation of desktop grids and peer-to-peer settings.

Roadmap

The planned work spans in several axis, splited in work packages:

• Improving the models used in SimGrid: increasing their scalability (WP1) and easing their instanciation (WP2) ;
• Providing associated tools for experimenters, such as result analysis assistants (WP3) and test campaign managers (WP4) ;
• Increasing the simulator scalability by parallelization (WP5) and optimization.

We aim at producing a scientific instrument directly usable by a large community. We work in close loop with end-users to ensure that the tool is well adapted to their need (WP6).

Partners

• AlGorille team of INRIA Nancy - Grand Est
• CEPAGE team of INRIA Bordeaux - Sud Ouest
• Mescal team of INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
• GRAAL team of INRIA Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes
• SysCom group of University of Reims
• Research team of IN2P3 Computing Center
• CoRG group of University of Hawai'i at Manoa, USA.
• MASCOTTE team of INRIA Sophia Antipolis - Méditerranée

USS-SimGrid is funded for three years (2009-2011) by the The French National Research Agency (ANR) under contract no. ANR-08-SEGI-022.