Remote SimGrid

RSG is (will be) a simple solution to execute your distributed application on top of SimGrid. You just have to reimplement the little class abstracting every network interactions that you have down below in your code architecture. This is easy with the RSG client API.

Then, the RSG server can start your (real) application on top of a (simulated) platform, enabling you to use the full power of SimGrid as a perfect testbench for your application.

Enjoy reproducibility, clairevoyance and simplicity while testing your distributed application or infrastructure !

Current State

SimGrid is a strong and mature framework to study distributed algorithms or applications. Remote SimGrid is usable but still lacking some features. It is expected to be usable in production by the end of the year (2015).

## Contact and Licence

If you are interested, please drop us a line on the [email protected] mailing list.

SimGrid is released under LGPL while RemoteSimGrid is released under the GNU Affero Licence. Please see the source packages for more information.

Installing Remote-Simgrid

• Install Thrift (version 0.9.3)

wget http://apache.lauf-forum.at/thrift/0.9.3/thrift-0.9.3.tar.gz tar -xvf thrift-0.9.3.tar.gz cd thrift-0.9.3 ./configure make [sudo] make install

- If you want to run the tests, thrift have to be compiled with extra compilers flags :

  ```bash
  wget http://apache.lauf-forum.at/thrift/0.9.3/thrift-0.9.3.tar.gz
  tar -xvf thrift-0.9.3.tar.gz
  cd thrift-0.9.3
  export CXXFLAGS="-DTHRIFT_SQUELCH_CONSOLE_OUTPUT" && export CFLAGS="-DTHRIFT_SQUELCH_CONSOLE_OUTPUT" && ./configure
  make
  [sudo] make install

• Install the S4U branch of SimGrid (which in turn depends on Boost). S4U is a preview of the future SimGrid v4.

  # Fetch the S4U branch
  git clone https://github.com/mquinson/simgrid.git --branch S4U --depth 1
  cd simgrid
  

  # Configure it
  cmake -Denable_documentation=OFF -Denable_smpi=off -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/simgrid .
  
  # Build and install it into /opt (change CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX to install elsewhere)
  make install
  

• And then compile remote-simgrid:

cmake -DSimGrid_PATH=/opt/simgrid -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/opt/rsg .
make

There is no way to properly install the soft yet :(