To simplify our description, we refer the directory of CSIM-20 as "CSIM directory" and the directory containing this README file as "project directory".

1. We assume that you have purchased CSIM-20 and had it installed in your machine.

2. Go to CSIM directory, you can find a file csim.gpp and a directory lib/. Create links of csim.gpp and lib/ in the project directory.

ln -s CSIM-directory/csim.gpp project-directory/csim.gpp
ln -s CSIM-directory/lib/ project-directory/lib/

3. In the project directory, configure the system settings in config/sysSetting.xml.

4. In the project directory, compile by "make" and call "./main" to generate the output. If you want to store the output of program, redirect the output to a target file by calling "./main > [target file]".

The output can be interpreted line-by-line. Each line contains information of one operation. The format is:

[operation code]: begins [starting time] ends [ending time]

For example,

stripeOp: begins 1175.538349 ends 1193.102391

indicates that one striping operation starts at 1175.5s and ends at 1193.1s.

There are three types of operations:

• encodeOp: the encoding operation that transforms the replicated data of one stripe into erasure coded format.
• inClusWriteOp: the write operation issued by a DataNode.
• writeOp: the write operation issued from a client located outside the cluster.

Below are the major modules of the simulator.

• TrafficManager: manages stripe (encode) stream and write stream.
• Topology: manages transmission resources (links) and (tree-structured) network topology.
• PlacementManager:generated replicated block layouts with either EAR or conventional placement.
• FlowGraph: implementation of the flow graph algorithm in EAR.

You can go to src/ and find the source files of each component.

There is a doxygen-generated documentation in the directory html/.

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  |                TrafficManager             |
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  |                      |  PlacementManager  |
  |        Topology      |        ------------|
  |                      |        | FlowGraph |
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