release_notes.txt

            Cloudsim Project to Release CloudSim Toolkit 2.0

The Cloudbus Project at The University of Melbourne, Australia along with collaborators
from the High Performance Lab (LAD) at Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul
(PUCRS), Porto Alegre, Brazil is proud to announce the release of the new version of its
Cloud simulation software, the CloudSim.

One year has passed since CloudSim beta was released. Since then, Cloud computing has gained
more visibility, and a plenty of new projects, both in academia and in the industry, emerged.
To help developers of such projects to evaluate new strategies and ideas before actual
development, CloudSim 2.0 contains support for model and simulation of hot topics in Cloud
Computing, including green/power-aware Cloud Computing and federated Cloud Computing.

At the same time new features were added, major improvements in simulation core allowed enhanced
scalability and performance of simulations and insertion and removal of simulation entities
during simulation execution. It increases considerably scenarios that may be addressed in
simulations, what we hope will contribute to a wider adoption of the tool by the research
community.

These improvements were possible due to extensive support from the Cloud Computing research
community around the world, which used CloudSim, appointed bugs, and provided us feedback on
new features they would like to have in future versions the toolkit. Community is invited to
keep contribution to CloudSim.

As in its previous version, 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.

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

The CloudSim Team
Melbourne, May 2010