SimGrid is a scientific instrument to study the behavior of large-scale distributed systems such as Grids, Clouds, HPC or P2P systems. It can be used to evaluate heuristics, prototype applications or even assess legacy MPI applications.
Please refer to the Installing SimGrid part of the documentation shipped with this repository to learn about the different ways to intall SimGrid. More documentation is also available online
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