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@@ -8,3 +8,63 @@ Elektron is designed as a lightweight, configurable framework, which can be used
 * [Pluggable Scheduling Policies](docs/SchedulingPolicies.md)
 * [Pluggable Power-Capping strategies](docs/PowerCappingStrategies.md)
 * Cluster resource monitoring
+
+#Software Requirements
+**Requires [Performance Co-Pilot](http://pcp.io/) tool pmdumptext to be installed on the
+machine on which electron is launched for logging to work and PCP collector agents installed
+on the Mesos Agents**
+
+Compatible with the following versions,
+
+* Mesos 1.5.0
+* Go 1.9.7
+
+#Build and Run
+Compile the source code using the `go build` tool as shown below.
+```commandline
+go build -o elektron
+```
+How to run (Use the --help option to get information about other command-line options):
+
+`./elektron -workload <workload json>`
+
+To run electron with Scheduling Policy Switching Enabled, run the following command,
+
+`./electron -workload <workload json> -ssp -spConfig <schedPolicy config file>`
+
+Workload schema:
+
+```
+[
+   {
+      "name": "minife",
+      "cpu": 3.0,
+      "ram": 4096,
+      "watts": 63.141,
+      "class_to_watts": {
+        "A": 93.062,
+        "B": 65.552,
+        "C": 57.897,
+        "D": 60.729
+      },
+      "image": "rdelvalle/minife:electron1",
+      "cmd": "cd src && mpirun -np 3 miniFE.x -nx 100 -ny 100 -nz 100",
+      "inst": 10
+   },
+   {
+      "name": "dgemm",
+      "cpu": 3.0,
+      "ram": 32,
+      "watts": 85.903,
+      "class_to_watts": {
+        "A": 114.789,
+        "B": 89.133,
+        "C": 82.672,
+        "D": 81.944
+      },
+      "image": "rdelvalle/dgemm:electron1",
+      "cmd": "/./mt-dgemm 1024",
+      "inst": 10
+   }
+]
+```