Subject:
Re: Request to review a paper C578: GridSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Global Grids
From:
Chip Watson <watson@jlab.org>
Date:
Mon, 17 Dec 2001 15:16:42 -0500
To:
gcf@indiana.edu

Geoffrey,

I have read the paper you requested that I review:

C578: GridSim: A Toolkit for the Modeling and Simulation of Global Grids
http://aspen.ucs.indiana.edu/CCPEwebresource/c578buyya/gridsim.pdf
Authors: Manzur Murshed, Rajkumar Buyya, and David Abramson
Gippsland School of Computing and IT , Monash University, Gippsland Campus Churchill, Vic 3842,
Australia; School of
Computer Science and Software Engineering Monash University, C5.41, Caulfield Campus Melbourne,
VIC 3145, Australia
Received November 6 2001

I think this is a well written paper, and recommend publish as is.

Comments for Author & Editor:
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1) They did a good job motivating their work and giving a survey of related work.
2) They did a good job explaining the capabilities of their simulation library, with
    some detailed examples.
3) They also indicated where future work would be necessary.  This part was a
    bit thin. QoS (failures) and advance reservations were mentioned, but contract guarantees
    (or absence and violation thereof) were not mentioned. Nor was any attention paid to
    the emerging replicated global file repositories (maybe still too new). The most difficult
    problem may also be the scheduling priorities of a particular resource (which may have
    goals to service some users better than others).
4) Good list of references.
5) Fonts in Figure 1 are poor quality in the pdf file viewed onscreen (probably should fix for pub)

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Chip Watson

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