Grid Matrix

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Contents 1 Grid Matrix - A Graphic Grid Simulator for Windows 1.1 Features 1.2 Requirements 2 v1.1 released 21th February 2008 3 Download 4 Support 4.1 Google mail list 4.2 Forum 5 Future works 6 Screenshots

Grid Matrix - A Graphic Grid Simulator for Windows

Grid Matrix is a Graphical Grid simulator for Windows that is implemented over SimGrid.

Grid Matrix uses SimGrid toolkit to run the simulation. The network can be defined using a graphic interface and run within the application.
The simulation code is written in Python using bindings to SimGrid.

Features

• Complete design of the network.
• Python bindings for MSG.
• Simulation run within the GUI.
• Pause / Stop simulation.
• Multiple trace options.
• Python output and errors redirected to the GUI.
• Grid Nodes change their red intensity to show activity.
• Custom activity can be set by Python scripts.
• Create graphics from scripts.

Requirements

• Microsoft Visual Studio VS2005 SP1 runtime
  

v1.1 released 21th February 2008

• Several bug fixes.
• New script creates a simulated MDS service to test resource information propagation policies.

Policies implemented:
* Random
* Best-neighbor
* Super-Peer
* Hierarchical

Download

Grid Matrix Windows Installer
Grid Matrix Source Code

Support

Google mail list

Subscribe to Grid Matrix Users

Email:

Visit this group

Forum

Grid Matrix Support
Grid Matrix Contributions

Future works

• More scripts.
• Support other APIs in SimGrid.
• Add a form to set process parameters.
• Linux support: Linux developer wanted!

Screenshots

Grid Matrix while simulating.


Grid Matrix showing results of a simulation.