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Welcome to Batmen's documentation!

Batmen is a plugin to the scientific simulator Batsim. It allows the simulation of users (bat-men) of large-scale distributed systems.

How does is work?

A simulation with Batmen has to be launched in parallel with Batsim.

• Batsim takes care of simulating the IT platform (job arrival, job termination, energy consumed...), thanks to the underlying simulator SimGrid.
• Batmen simulates the users of the system, through their job submission behavior. It also simulates the scheduler.

Batmen was developped mainly by Maël Madon during his PhD thesis. The most up-to-date description can be found in Chapter II of the thesis manuscript (and more precisely in Section II.2.2). It was used to carry scientific experimental campains, leading to several peer-reveiwed publications:

• Europar'22: Maël Madon, Georges Da Costa, and Jean-Marc Pierson. "Characterization of Different User Behaviors for Demand Response in Data Centers"
• FGCS'24: Maël Madon, Georges Da Costa, and Jean-Marc Pierson. "Replay with Feedback: How Does the Performance of HPC System Impact User Submission Behavior?"
• ICT4S'24: Jolyne Gatt, Maël Madon, and Georges Da Costa. "Digital Sufficiency Behaviors to Deal with Intermittent Energy Sources in a Data Center"

If you use it for your work, please cite one of these.

This documentation is divided in two parts, user and developer manual: