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Grid'5000 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: provides access to a large amount of resources: 15000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: PMEM, GPU, SSD, NVMe, 10G and 25G Ethernet, Infiniband, Omni-Path highly reconfigurable and controllable: researchers can experiment with a fully customized software stack thanks to bare-metal deployment features, and can isolate their experiment at the networking layer advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption, providing a deep understanding of experiments designed to support Open Science and reproducible research, with full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed a vibrant community of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team Read more about our teams, our publications, and the usage policy of the testbed. Then get an account, and learn how to use the testbed with our Getting Started tutorial and the rest of our Users portal. Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018) Recently published documents and presentations: Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Older documents: Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014 Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014) Grid'5000 is supported by a scientific interest group (GIS) hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations. Inria has been supporting Grid'5000 through ADT ALADDIN-G5K (2007-2013), ADT LAPLACE (2014-2016), and IPL HEMERA (2010-2014).

Current status (at 2024-11-24 12:17): 1 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2524 overall):

• Daniel Rosendo, Marta Mattoso, Alexandru Costan, Renan Souza, Débora Pina, et al.. ProvLight: Efficient Workflow Provenance Capture on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. Cluster 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Oct 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. pp.1-13. hal-04161546 view on HAL pdf
• Volodia Parol-Guarino, Nikos Parlavantzas. GIRAFF: Reverse Auction-based Placement for Fog Functions. WoSC 2023 - 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, Dec 2023, Bologna, Italy. pp.53-58, 10.1145/3631295.3631402. hal-04384516 view on HAL pdf
• Petr Dzurenda, Florian Jacques, Manon Knockaert, Maryline Laurent, Lukas Malina, et al.. Privacy-preserving solution for vehicle parking services complying with EU legislation. PeerJ Computer Science, 2022, 8, pp.e1165. 10.7717/peerj-cs.1165. hal-03997331 view on HAL pdf
• Wedan Emmanuel Gnibga, Anne Blavette, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Renewable Energy in Data Centers: the Dilemma of Electrical Grid Dependency and Autonomy Costs. IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, 2024, 9 (3), pp.315-328. 10.1109/TSUSC.2023.3307790. hal-04189173 view on HAL pdf
• Ilhem Fajjari, Wassim Aroui, Joaquim Soares, Vania Marangozova. Use Cases Requirements. UGA (Université Grenoble Alpes). 2024. hal-04450028 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

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:

1 ARM64 CPU (Nvidia Carmel micro-arch) with 8 cores

1 Nvidia GPU (Nvidia Volta micro-arch)

32 GB RAM shared between CPU and GPU

1 NVMe of 2TB

1 Gbps NIC

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)

Cluster "montcalm" is now in the default queue in Toulouse

We have the pleasure to announce that the "montaclm" cluster is now available in the default queue of the Toulouse site, which makes the site full-fledged again!

This cluster consists of 10 HPE Proliant DL360 Gen10+ nodes with 2 CPUs Intel Xeon Silver 4314 (16 cores per CPUs), 256 GB of DDR4 RAM, and 894GB SSD.

Jobs submitted on the Toulouse site will run by default on this cluster.

Beside the "montcalm" cluster, the "edge-class" cluster "estats" is still available in the testing queue for now.

In order to support the SLICES-FR project, the site infrastructure has been funded by CNRS/INS2I and the "montcalm" cluster has been funded by University Paul Sabatier (UT3).

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:30, 18 Jan 2024 (CET)

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Grid'5000 sites

Grenoble Lille Luxembourg

Lyon Nancy Nantes

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

Current funding

As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA	CNRS
Universities IMT Atlantique Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP Université Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux Université Lille 1, Lille École Normale Supérieure, Lyon	Regional councils Aquitaine Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Bretagne Champagne-Ardenne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Hauts de France Lorraine