Computer Science differs from other experimental sciences, such as biology of physics, in the way experimental results are presented in articles. In those other disciplines articles always begin with a detailed presentation of the methods employed to produce the results that often rely on previously described and acknowledged procedures. In computer science, and more particularly in the field of application simulation, only a short description of a (sometime unavailable) ad-hoc simulation framework is provided. This prevents reproducibility of published results and thus objective comparisons between new research results and the state of the art. To reduce this gap between computer science and other experimental sciences, there is need for powerful, validated, available and well advertised tools and methods. The general goal of this project is to provide such an application simulation framework that meets the needs of both the High Performance Computing and the Large Scale Distributed Computing communities. SimGrid is recognized inthe HPC community as one of the most prominent simulation environments as shown by its large community of users and the number of publications that use it. This project will allow to extend SimGrid to target the Large Scale Distributed Computing community, increase simulation realism, and provide useful tools for test campaign management.

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