Gridbus Project to Release CloudSim Toolkit 1.0 Beta

The Gridbus Project at The University of Melbourne, Australia is proud to announce 
the release of the new Cloud simulation software, the CloudSim.

CloudSim will support research and development in the emerging field of Cloud
Computing, and offers the following novel features: (i) support for modeling and
simulation of large scale Cloud computing infrastructure, including data centers on
a single physical computing node; and (ii) a self-contained platform for modeling data
centers, service brokers, scheduling, and allocations policies. Among the unique
features of CloudSim, there are: (i) availability of virtualization engine, which aids
in creation and management of multiple, independent, and co-hosted virtualized services
on a data center node; and (ii) flexibility to switch between space-shared and time-shared
allocation of processing cores to virtualized services. These compelling features of
CloudSim would speed up the development of new algorithms, methods, and protocols in Cloud
computing, hence contributing towards quicker evolution of the paradigm.

All components developed as part of the CloudSim Toolkit are released as
"open source" under the GPL license to encourage innovation and pass full
freedom to our users.

As a simulation tool for an emerging technology, there are several issues related
to Cloud Computing that still in development. We have done our best to address as
many issues as possible, considering not only research developed in the GRIDS Lab
but also recent cloud-related research that has been published in academic journals
and conferences. Nevertheless, there may be features that is required by cloud
researches and that are not present in this version of CloudSim. In the other hand,
there may have features that are not required by cloud researchers. Hence, the
CloudSim team will be happy to receive feedback on usefulness of the current features,
and also to receive suggestions on which features should be present in the final version
of the tool. Also, any feedback will be welcomed. Please, feel free to send e-mails to
the CloudSim developers. The addresses can be found in the CloudSim homepage at 
http://www.gridbus.org/cloudsim/

To download the CloudSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project web site at
http://www.gridbus.org/cloudsim/

The CloudSim Team
Melbourne, April 2009