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Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing including Cloud, HPC and Big Data and AI. Key features:
Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)
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Random pick of publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2758 overall):
- Wilmer Garzón-Alfonso. Secure distributed workflows for biomedical data analytics. Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.DC. Ecole nationale supérieure Mines-Télécom Atlantique; Escuela Colombiana de Ingeniería Julio Garavito, 2023. English. NNT : 2023IMTA0351. tel-04224597 view on HAL pdf
- Hee-Soo Choi, Priyansh Trivedi, Mathieu Constant, Karën Fort, Bruno Guillaume. Beyond Model Performance: Can Link Prediction Enrich French Lexical Graphs?. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), May 2024, Turin, Italy. hal-04537462 view on HAL pdf
- Maxime Méloux, Christophe Cerisara. Novel-WD: Exploring acquisition of Novel World Knowledge in LLMs Using Prefix-Tuning. 2023. hal-04269919 view on HAL pdf
- Wèdan Emmanuel Gnibga. Modeling and optimization of Edge infrastructures and their electrical systems. Databases cs.DB. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS069. tel-04967447 view on HAL pdf
- Marc Jourdan, Clémence Réda. An Anytime Algorithm for Good Arm Identification. 2024. hal-04688141 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
Cluster "Hydra" is now in the testing queue in Lyon
We are pleased to announce that the hydra[1] cluster of Lyon is now available in the testing queue.
Hydra is a cluster composed of 4 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper servers[2].
Each node features:
Due to its bleeding edge hardware, usual Grid'5000 environments are not supported by default for this cluster.
(Hydra requires system environments featuring a Linux kernel >= 6.6). The default system on the hydra nodes is based on Debian11, but **does not provide functional GPU**. However, users may deploy the ubuntugh2404-arm64-big environment, which is similar to official Nvidia image provided for this machine and provides GPU support.
To submit a job on this cluster, the following command may be used:
oarsub -q testing -t exotic -p hydra
This cluster is funded by INRIA and by Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme with ENS Lyon support.
[1] Hydra is the largest of the modern constellations according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(constellation)
[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-hopper-superchip-architecture-in-depth/
-- Grid'5000 Team 16:10, 11 March 2025 (CEST)
New Access Rules for Production Queue
We are introducing new access rules for clusters in the production queue. Clusters in this queue are now accessed based on priority levels that reflect their funding sources. Jobs submitted at higher priority levels are scheduled before those at lower levels and may also have longer maximum durations.
For more detailed information, please visit: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Production#Using_production_resources . However, an important thing to note is that job submission commands that worked previously will still work after that change (but you might get higher or lower priority depending on your resources selection).
You can check your priority level for each cluster using https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer . Currently, this tool only displays basic information; however, we plan to add more features soon.
Please be aware that these changes apply only to the production clusters, which are currently available only in Nancy and Rennes. There are no changes to the "default" queue.
If you encounter any issues or have feedback regarding this new feature, or if you believe your priority level on specific resources is not adequate, please contact us at <support-staff@lists.grid5000.fr>.
-- Grid'5000 Team 9:25, June 4th 2024 (CEST)
Cluster "estats" is now in the default queue in Toulouse
We are pleased to announce that the estats cluster of Toulouse (the name refers to Pica d'Estats) is now available in the default queue.
As a reminder, estats is composed of 12 edge-class nodes powered by Nvidia AGX Xavier SoCs. Each node features:
Since it is not a cluster of server-class machines (unlike all current other Grid'5000 nodes), estats runs a different default system environment, but other common functionalities are the same (kadeploy etc., except kavlan which is not supported yet).
For the experimentations, it is recommended to deploy Ubuntu L4T.
More information in the Jetson page.
The cluster was funded by a CNRS grant.
-- Grid'5000 Team 9:51, March 6th 2024 (CEST)
The big variant of Debian 12 "Bookworm" environments is ready for deployments
We are pleased to inform you that the big variant of Debian 12 (Bookworm) environments is now supported for deployments in Grid'5000. Check `kaenv3 -l debian12%` for detailed information.
Notably, the NVIDIA driver has been updated to version 535.129.03, and CUDA has been upgraded to version 12.2.2_535.104.05_linux for the amd64 architecture.
The default environment available on nodes will continue to be debian11-std for the foreseeable future.
Please refer to the updated wiki documentation¹ for guidance on Debian 12-min|nfs|big usage.
¹: https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#On_Grid.275000_reference_environments
-- Grid'5000 Team 14:21, Jan 22nd 2024 (CEST)
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