Grid5000:Open-Access

Framework of the Open Access program

	Warning
	The Grid'5000 Open-Access program is closed. Please see the Get an account page for information on how the get access to Grid'5000.

Researchers outside of France or researchers outside of the French academic community can request access to Grid'5000 thanks to the Open-Access program.

If you do not have active formal collaboration with academic researchers from France (e.g. via a European project or an international partnership) or a special agreement (in any of those cases, you may be able to get a regular account thanks to it), you can get a trial access to Grid'5000 for 2 months within the framework of the Open-Access program. See the get an account page.

After the 2 months, obtaining an extension of your program requires you to provide a report.

Please, mind reading the Grid'5000 Usage Policy and the General Conditions of Use for more details on the usage of the platform.

Open-Access user report

While a user report on the use of Grid'5000 within the framework of the Open-Access program is welcomed (wished) in any case, providing a report is mandatory in order to request an extension of the program.

Reports should be sent by email to the Open-Access program managers, and contain the following information:

(1) What is your Grid'5000 username ?
<...>
(2) What is your current situation (work status/employer/university/laboratory/project) ?
<...>
(3) What is your research topic, in a few lines ?
<...>
(4) What experiments have you been conducting on Grid'5000, in a few lines ?
<...>
(5) What Grid'5000 resources did you use and/or were/are you looking for (special hardware, cluster size, ...) ?
<...>
(6) What features of Grid'5000 did you use and/or were/are the most important to you (bare-metal deployment, network reconfiguration, ...) ?
<...>
(7) Did you produce any outcome and/or publish any results (scientific papers, software,...) thanks to Grid'5000 ?
<...>

And if applying for an extension, please provide the following in addition to the previous points:

(8) Is it the first time you ask for an extension of your Open-Access program membership ?
<Yes/No>
(9) Why was the previous period not enough to conduct your experiments, in a few lines ?
<...>
(10) For how long would you like your Open-Access program membership extended ?
<... months>
(11) What kind of experiment do you plan to do if your membership extension is granted, in a few lines ?
<...>
(12) Since the last request (account creation or membership extension), did your professional situation change (new lab, position change,...) ?
<Yes/No if Yes, please briefly describe the change)>

	Note
	In all your answers: Please provide as much as possible verifiable references (URLs, names, ...) for publications, projects, affiliations, etc. The more accurate the information is, the quicker it will be handled.