Cooper: A Lightweight Event Recording and Visualization Framework for Data Center Simulations

Mark Doyle, Theodoros Aslanidis, Dimitris Chatzopoulos

Abstract: Cloud simulation tools are essential for modeling and evaluating complex cloud computing infrastructures, enabling researchers to study resource allocation strategies, scheduling algorithms, and overall system performance. CloudSim Plus is a widely used Java framework for building such simulations. However, despite its rich feature set, it offers only limited support for post-simulation analysis, providing primarily static ASCII tables that summarize final resource states. As simulation complexity grows, this output format becomes insufficient, highlighting the need for more interactive and insightful analysis tools.

External IDs:doi:10.1007/978-3-032-13744-9_2