Simgrid: A Toolkit for the Simulation of Application Scheduling
CCGRID '01 Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
GridFlow: Workflow Management for Grid Computing
CCGRID '03 Proceedings of the 3st International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
Globus® Toolkit 4, First Edition: Programming Java Services (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking)
GangSim: a simulator for grid scheduling studies
CCGRID '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05) - Volume 2 - Volume 02
CasSim: a top-level-simulator for grid scheduling and applications
CASCON '06 Proceedings of the 2006 conference of the Center for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
ASKALON: A Grid Application Development and Computing Environment
GRID '05 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
Future Generation Computer Systems
A toolkit for modelling and simulating data Grids: an extension to GridSim
Concurrency and Computation: Practice & Experience
GroudSim: an event-based simulation framework for computational grids and clouds
Euro-Par 2010 Proceedings of the 2010 conference on Parallel processing
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The utilisation of Grid and Cloud-based computing environments for solving scientific problems has become an increasingly used practice in the last decade. To ease the use of these global distributed resources, sophisticated middleware systems have been developed, enabling the transparent execution of applications by hiding low-level technology details from the user. The ASKALON environment is such a system, which supports the development and execution of distributed applications such as scientific workflows or parameter studies in Grid and Cloud computing environments. On the other hand, simulation is a widely accepted approach to analyse and further optimise the behaviour of software systems. Beside the advantage of enabling repeatable deterministic evaluations, simulations are able to circumvent the difficulties in setting up and operating multi-institutional Grid systems, thus providing a lightweight simulated distributed environment on a single machine. In this paper, we present the integration of the GroudSim Grid and Cloud event-based simulator into the ASKALON environment. This enables system, application developers, and users to perform simulations using their accustomed environment, thereby benefiting from the combination of an established real-world platform and the advantages of a simulation.