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Gridbus Project To Release GridSim Toolkit 3.2

The Gridbus Project at the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the
next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 3.2 toolkit.

The new version of GridSim has been substantially improved. They include:
* incorporates multiple regional GridInformationService (GIS) entities
connected in a network topology. With this functionality, a resource
registers to its regional GIS entity. In addition, a regional GIS entity
can communicate/query to other GIS entities about their local resources.
In summary, this functionality allows a Virtual Organization (VO) scenario.

* incorporates a functionality to select/filter an event from the incoming
entity's queue based on some constraints.

* bug fixes in sending and receiving acknowledgement in GridSim and
AdvanceReservation class.

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/dowloaded by several
academic and commercial organizations around the world including:
California Institute of Technology, Argonne National Labs,
University of Illinois, Manchester University, CERN, Carleton University,
University of Ljubljana, National University of Singapore,
Indian Institute of Technology, Tsinghua University, Sun Microsystems,
IBM, Unisys, HP, British Telecom and EMC Corp.

The GridSim software has been used for modeling and simulating many
interesting systems. For example, Unisys's usage in data center modeling
and University of Ljubljana's extension of GridSim to support DataGrid.
Our own usages include simulating economic Grid scheduler in a competitive
economy model, economic based cluster scheduler and cooperative Grid federation.

The contributors to the GridSim software (early/new version) are:

* Rajkumar Buyya, GridS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Manzur Murshed, GSCIT @ Monash University.
* Anthony Sulistio, GridS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Gokul Poduval, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering @ National
University of Singapore.
* Chen-Khong Tham, Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering @ National
University of Singapore.

GridSim visual modeller by:
* Anthony Sulistio, GridS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.
* Chee Shin Yeo, GridS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.


To download the GridSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project Web site at
http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim/
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