Rajkumar Buyya
Anthony Sulistio
The University of Melbourne
The open source Gridbus Project, led by the Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory at the University of Melbourne, Australia, is pleased release the next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim 2.1 toolkit.
The new version of GridSim includes substantial improvements:
- Provides the comprehensive GridSim, GridBroker and VisualModeler API
- Resolves identified bugs
- Incorporates examples of how to use GridSim and GridBroker
- Groups the relevant Class files into jar files. Hence, the user only need to include relevant jar file
- Uses Java's code convention. As a result, increase code readability.
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.
The early version of our GridSim toolkit has been used and downloaded by several academic and commercial organizations around the world, including: California Institute of Technology, Argonne National Lab, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Manchester University, CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research), National University of Singapore, Tsinghua University, Sun Microsystems, IBM, Unisys, HP, British Telecom, and EMC Corporation.
The GridSim software has been used for modeling and simulating many interesting systems. For example, one of the users from Unisys is exploring its use in data center modeling. Our own usages include simulating an economic Grid scheduler in a competitive economy model; and for an economy-based cluster scheduler.
The contributors to the GridSim software - both early and new versions - are:
For the GridSim base platform (and also broker):
- Rajkumar Buyya, GRIDS Lab (University of Melbourne)
- Manzur Murshed, GSCIT (Monash University)
- Anthony Sulistio, GRIDS Lab (University of Melbourne)
For the GridSim visual modeler:
- Anthony Sulistio, GRIDS Lab (University of Melbourne)
- Chee Shin Yeo, GRIDS Lab (University of Melbourne)
To download the GridSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project website:http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim.The GridSim 2.1 Toolkit Release notes can be found at: http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim/gridsim2.1. We hope that the users of GridSim will find this new version useful. If you need any specific clarification on the Gridbus Project or the GridSim Toolkit, please contact the developers.
About the GRIDS Lab and Gridbus Project
The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory is a software research and development group within the Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne, Australia. The Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) Research Group is one of the five research groups in the department. The University of Melbourne is Australia's leading research based university, with an international profile through its reputation for scholarship and teaching. The members of GRIDS Lab and PDC research group are actively engaged in the design and development of next generation computing systems and applications. The GRIDS lab is working towards realizing this vision through its flagship project called Gridbus.
The Gridbus project, in collaboration with leading researchers around the world, is developing fundamental open-source technologies for service-oriented Grid and utility computing. They include Economic Grid Scheduler, Cluster Scheduler (Libra), Grid modeling and simulation (GridSim), Data Grid broker, GridBank, G-monitor, Gridscape, and visual tools for workflow management and composition of distributed applications from legacy software components. The Gridbus scheduling system aggregates or leases of services of distributed resources depending on their availability, capability, performance, cost, and users' quality-of-service requirements. The Gridbus technology development is driven by requirements of various application domains such as Drug Design, High Energy Physics, Brain Activity Analysis, and Natural Language Engineering. The World Wide Grid (WWG) testbed used in the research contains resources from organizations around the globe.
The research and development activities of GRIDS lab and Gridbus project are sponsored by Sun Microsystems, California, USA; Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing, University of Melbourne, IBM (recently for Belle Analysis Data Grid Testbed), and Australian Government. The Gridbus Project welcomes collaboration opportunities from individuals, groups, communities, or companies around the world.
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