<s>
SimGrid	B-Operating_System
is	O
a	O
toolkit	O
that	O
provides	O
core	O
functionalities	O
for	O
the	O
simulation	O
of	O
distributed	O
applications	O
in	O
heterogeneous	O
distributed	O
environments	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
specific	O
goal	O
of	O
the	O
project	O
is	O
to	O
facilitate	O
research	O
in	O
the	O
area	O
of	O
parallel	O
and	O
distributed	O
large	O
scale	O
systems	O
,	O
such	O
as	O
Grids	B-Architecture
,	O
P2P	O
systems	O
and	O
Cloud	B-Architecture
.	O
</s>
