simulation.html

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    {% assign num_sim = site.data.simulators | size %}

    <article class="post">
        <header>
            <div class="title">
                <h2><img src="/images/wfcommons-red-leaf.png" alt=""/> WfSim</h2>
                <p>Workflow Simulation</p>
            </div>
            <div class="meta">
                <div style="line-height: 1.5em">
                    <span style="font-size: 2.5em" class="wfsim">{{ num_sim }}</span>
                    <p style="color: #666; line-height: 1.3em; margin-top: 0">workflow <strong>simulators</strong>
                    </p>
                </div>
            </div>
        </header>
        <p>
            An alternative to conducting scientific workflow research via real-world experiments is to use simulation,
            i.e., implement a software artifact that models the functional and performance behaviors of software and
            hardware stacks of interest.
            Simulation is used in many computer science domains and can address the limitations of real-world
            experiments, e.g. they are confined to application and platform configurations available at hand, and thus
            cover only a small subset of the relevant scenarios that may be encountered in practice.
        </p>
        <p>
            <strong class="wfsim">WfSim</strong> fosters the use of simulation for the development, evaluation, and
            verification of scheduling and resource provisioning algorithms (e.g., multi-objective function
            optimization, etc.), evaluation of current and emerging computing platforms (e.g., clouds, IoT, extreme
            scale, etc.), among others.
        </p>
        <p>
            In this page, we keep a list of <strong>open source</strong> workflow management systems simulators and
            simulation frameworks that provide support for <a href="/format" class="wfformat">WfFormat</a>, which is
            used for generating workflow execution traces (<a href="/traces" class="wftraces">WfTraces</a>), and
            synthetic workflows obtained with <a href="/generator" class="wfgenerator">WfGen</a>.
        </p>
        <p>
            We are constantly seeking for additional simulators to be added to the list below. If you want to also have
            your simulator listed in this page, please
            <a href="mailto:support@wfcommons.org?subject=WfSim - Contribution" class="wfsim">contact us</a>. Note that
            each simulator should be compatible with <a href="/format" class="wfformat">WfFormat</a>.
        </p>

    </article>

    <article class="post">
        <header>
            <div class="title">
                <h3>Open Access Simulator Repositories</h3>
                <p>List of Workflow Simulators</p>
            </div>
        </header>
        <div class="row">
            {% for s in site.data.simulators %}
            <div class="col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-6 col-xl-6">
                <a href="{{ s.website }}" class="trace" target="_blank">
                    <div class="header">
                        <h1 class="wfsim">{{ s.name }}</h1>
                    </div>
                    <div style="padding: 1em; color: #666; text-align: left; border-bottom: 1px solid #eee; font-size: 0.9em">
                        {{ s.description }}
                    </div>
                    <div class="footer">
                        {% if s.action %}
                        <img src="{{ s.website }}/workflows/{{ s.action }}/badge.svg" alt="build"/>
                        {% endif %}
                        &nbsp;
                        {% if s.release %}
                        <img src="{{ s.release }}" alt="Release"/>
                        {% endif %}
                    </div>
                </a>
            </div>
            {% endfor %}
        </div>
        <p></p>
    </article>

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