Batsim¶
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Batsim is a scientific simulator to analyze batch schedulers. Batch schedulers — or Resource and Jobs Management Systems, RJMSs — are systems that manage resources in large-scale computing centers, notably by scheduling and placing jobs.
- Analyze and compare online scheduling algorithms.
- Sound simulation models thanks to SimGrid.
- Develop algorithms (in any programming language) without SimGrid knowledge, or to plug existing algorithm implementations to Batsim. Done thanks to a Protocol between Batsim and the schedulers
- Several ways to model how jobs should be simulated. Allows multiple levels of realism regarding several phenomena. Highly customizable to your needs.
- Keeping the implementation robust and maintainable is important to us.
The present documentation focuses on Batsim technical aspects. The most up-to-date scientific description of Batsim is done in Millian Poquet’s PhD thesis (chapters 3 and 4). There is also the outdated Batsim initial white paper — please cite it (bibtex) if you use Batsim for your research.
Tutorials
User Manual
Simulation outputs