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The Gridbus Project To Release GridSim Toolkit 4.0
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The Gridbus Project and the GRIDS (Grid Computing and Distributed
Systems) Lab at the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the
next-version of Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 4.0.

The new version of GridSim
- add two major new features: auction model and data grid
- add a new packet scheduler for the network package
- add a network reader to read a network topology from a file and
automatically creates and link routers
- modify some of the network classes to
incorporate this new packet scheduler
- fix few bugs

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,
Universidad de Castilla-LaMancha (UCLM) Spain, Federal University of
Ceara (UFC) Brazil, BrunelUniversity UK, 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 and Chen-Khong Tham,
Dept. of Electrical & Computer Engineering @ National University of
Singapore.
* Uros Cibej and Borut Robic,
Faculty of Computer and Information Service,
The University of Ljubljana, Slovenia.

* Marcos Dias de Assuncao, GridS Lab @ The University of Melbourne.

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, usage documents and examples,
please visit the Gridbus Project Web site at
http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim/
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