Analysis Perspective Views of Grid Simulation Tools

摘要

Due to the high complexity of Grid computing systems, experimentation on a real Grid system is challenging and time consuming. Moreover, deploying a Grid system demands a lot of efforts, money, and skills. Therefore, a simulation based approach of experimentation and research is adopted by many researchers. Many simulation tools are available supporting diverse research studies in the Grid computing area. However, researchers need to choose the most appropriate one for the intended study, and taking that decision requires that the researchers understand all relevant details pertaining to the Grid simulation tools. Therefore, to guide a researcher in choosing a particular Grid simulation tool, we pose important questions that the researcher needs to consider. To answer the posed questions, we provide analysis perspective views of 12 important Grid simulation tools with emphasis on different users. Furthermore, we share our experience of working with SimGrid and GridSim. Our results with 31 comparison criteria on the selected Grid simulation tools would become very useful to users to get insights on the tools. Furthermore, we expect that the presented work will guide the authors of prospective simulation tools.