The current release version of NeSSi² is 2.0.0-beta.6.

NeSSi² is shipped in two separate parts. The backend  of NeSSi² administrates the simulation envoirement and receives simulation jobs from the user interface. The user interface allows the creation of networks, the management of simulation runs and the visualization and evaluation of completed simulations. Both parts are available under an Open Source license. All download files are available on SourceForge or below.

• MS Windows XP/Vista/7 32 bit (zip) and 64 bit (zip)
• Linux GTK 32 bit (zip)
• Linux GTK 64 bit (zip)
• Mac OS X 10.6.x (zip)

NeSSi² simulation backend:

• MS Windows XP/Vista/7 32 bit, Linux GTK 32 bit, Mac OS X 10.6.x (zip)

NeSSi² contributed Plug-Ins are already packaged with the user interface and backend archives, the source code is available in the NeSSi² Maven repository.

NeSSi² requires at least Java SE 6.

Also a database is required, NeSSi² has been tested with MySQL 5.5.

NeSSi² has been tested on Winodws XP/Vista/7 (32bit), Linux (32/64 bit) and Mac OS X 10.6.x.

If you want to develop extensions to NeSSi² you can download required NeSSi² libraries from our Maven 2 repository hosted on the DAI-Labor lecture server (Thanks to DAI-Labor lecture team). Please add the following information to your pom.xml or settings.xml:

<repository>

   <id>nessi2</id>           

   <url>http://repositories.dai-labor.de/extern/content/repositories/dai-open/</url>           

   <snapshots>             

      <enabled>false</enabled>           

   </snapshots>           

   <releases>             

      <enabled>true</enabled>           

   </releases>        

</repository> 

In your pom.xml you need to add the following dependencies:

 <dependency>        

      <groupId>de.dailab.nessi2.ip</groupId>        

      <artifactId>nessi2-ip-networks</artifactId>        

      <version>2.0.0-beta.6</version> 

</dependency> 

<dependency>       

      <groupId>de.dailab</groupId>       

      <artifactId>sad</artifactId>       

      <version>1.1.0</version> 

</dependency> 

For a detailed installation described see: NeSSi² Manual [PDF]

NeSSi² manual installation

NeSSi² Agent Simulation Backend

• Unpack the  zip file.
• Change to unpacked directory.
• Change to directory bin.
• Start the main agent node with nessi2.bat (windows) or nessi2.sh (linux/macosx).

NeSSi² Network Editor and Simulation Control