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a scientific instrument designed to support experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science related to parallel, large-scale or distributed computing and networking Download the latest general introduction, or a screencast of recent webUI developments

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• Publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2777 overall):

• Diego Amaya-Ramirez, Romain Lhotte, Cedric Usureau, Magali Devriese, Malika Smaïl-Tabbone, et al.. HLA-EpiCheck : A B-cell epitope prediction tool on HLA antigens using molecular dynamics simulation data. ISMB-ECCB 2023 - Intelligent System in Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology merged event, Jul 2023, Lyon, France. 2023. hal-04405086 view on HAL pdf
• Thomas Tournaire, Hind Castel-Taleb, Emmanuel Hyon. Efficient Computation of Optimal Thresholds in Cloud Auto-scaling Systems. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, 2023, 8 (4), pp.9. 10.1145/3603532. hal-04176076 view on HAL pdf
• Cédric Prigent, Melvin Chelli, Alexandru Costan, Loïc Cudennec, René Schubotz, et al.. Efficient Resource-Constrained Federated Learning Clustering with Local Data Compression on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. HiPC 2024 - 31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Dec 2024, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. pp.1-11, 10.1109/HiPC62374.2024.00033. hal-04779813 view on HAL pdf
• Romain Xu-Darme, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Romain Giot, Georges Quénot, Zakaria Chihani, et al.. On the stability, correctness and plausibility of visual explanation methods based on feature importance. CBMI'23 - the 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Sep 2023, Orléans, France. pp.119-125, 10.1145/3617233.3617257. cea-04256974 view on HAL pdf
• Nadia Skifa, Fadil Boodoo, Carole Delenne, Renaud Hostache, Morgan Abily. Impact of training dataset size and its hydrometeorological typology on LSTM performance for rainfall-runoff modeling: a case study of the Severn river. SimHydro conference 2023, Société Hydrotechnique de France (SHF); the Association Française de Mécanique (AFM); the Environmental & Water Resources Institute (EWRI); the International Association for Hydro-Environment Engineering and Research (IAHR), Nov 2023, Chatou, France. pp.107-128, 10.1007/978-981-97-4076-5. hal-04375806 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

Grid'5000 Spring School 2011 awards announced

Best presentation award to Simon Delamare

Challenge Winner 2011 to Rodrigue Chakode

The winning challenge entry demonstrated Deploying a Highly-dynamic Virtual Cluster Based on OpenNebula and Xen in Grid'5000, with SVMSched, and wins an archos Android tablet.

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Grid'5000 users selected for the second round of the SCALE'2011 challenge

The following paper has been selected for the second round of the international SCALE'2011 challenge organized in conjunction with the IEEE CCGRID'2011 to be held on May 23-26, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA, USA. M. Djamaï, B. Derbel, N. Melab. A Large-Scale Pure P2P Approach for the B&B Algorithm. (IEEE/ACM CCGRID/SCALE’2011, Newport Beach, USA, May 23-26, 2011).

The paper presents a peer-to-peer Branch-and-Bound algorithm for solving large-scale challenging combinatorial optimization problems. The high scalability of the algorithm is demonstrated through intensive experiments performed on Grid'5000. The work is strongly related to the scientific challenge Large scale computing for combinatorial optimization problems of the INRIA Hemera large wingspan project.

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Grid'5000 Tutorial at Renpar'20, to be held in Saint-Malo, May 10th

In the morning, talks will focus on experiment-driven research, open science and how Grid'5000 is a tool to be used in this context. The afternoon will be dedicated to concrete tutorials on how to access and to use Grid'5000. These tutorials will be based on the tutorials available at the Tutorial Home.

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Grid'5000 at a glance

Grid'5000 sites

• Grid'5000 is a scientific instrument for the study of large scale parallel and distributed systems. It aims at providing a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental platform to its users. The initial aim (circa 2003) was to reach 5000 processors in the platform. It has been reframed at 5000 cores, and was reached during winter 2008-2009.
• The infrastructure of Grid'5000 is geographically distributed on different sites hosting the instrument, initialy 9 in France. Porto Alegre, Brazil is now officially becoming the 10th site.

ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000

For the 2008-2012 period, Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ADT ALADDIN-G5K initiative.

Sites:

Bordeaux Grenoble Lille Luxembourg

Lyon Nancy Orsay Porto Alegre

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

Grid'5000 allows experiments in all these software layers

• Grid'5000 is a research effort developping a large scale nation wide infrastructure for large scale parallel and distributed computing research.

• 17 laboratories are involved in France with the objective of providing the community a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.

The current plans are to extend from the 9 initial sites each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network to a bigger platform including a few sites outside France not necessarily connected through a dedicated network connection. Sites in Brazil and Luxembourg should join shortly.

All sites in France are connected to RENATER with a 10Gb/s link.

This high collaborative research effort is funded by INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.

Initial Rationale

The foundations of Grid'5000 have emerged from a thorough analysis and numerous discussions about methodologies used for scientific research in the Grid domain. A report presents the rationale for Grid'5000.

In addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for large scale testbeds where real life experimental conditions hold. The size of Grid'5000, in terms of number of sites and number of processors per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.

Current funding

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

INRIA	CNRS
Universities University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble University of Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux University Lille 1, Lille Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon	Regional councils Aquitaine Bretagne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Nord Pas de Calais Lorraine