
331Simulation Tools for Cloud Computing
TABLE 11.1
Summary of Cloud Computing Simulation Tools
Simulator Characteristics and Limitations
Programming
Language Platform
Open Source/
Commercial
CloudSim [6,21] • Discrete-event simulation
• Comprehensive
• Complex scheduling support
• No TCP/IP support
• Limited communication model (only transmission
delay and bandwidth)
• Limited GUI support (via CloudAnalyst)
• No MPI and workow applications support
• No energy model
Java GridSim Open source
(http://www.
cloudbus.org/
cloudsim/)
CloudAnalyst [23] • Simulation of large-scale cloud applications
• Easy to repeat simulations and to change different
parameters ...