Grid5000:Home: Difference between revisions
No edit summary |
No edit summary |
||
Line 10: | Line 10: | ||
===Grid'5000 tests of new approaches for solving 'flow-shop scheduling' problems=== | ===Grid'5000 tests of new approaches for solving 'flow-shop scheduling' problems=== | ||
''December 9th, 2005:'' The '''Dolphin Team''' From LIFL and INRIA Futurs solved (exact solution) the '''flow-shop scheduling problem''' for the instance of 50 Jobs on 20 machines, using a novel hybrid approach. More than 800 CPUs of Grid'5000 were used for solving this problem out of a total of 1200 CPUs. More details on [[Lille: | ''December 9th, 2005:'' The '''Dolphin Team''' From LIFL and INRIA Futurs solved (exact solution) the '''flow-shop scheduling problem''' for the instance of 50 Jobs on 20 machines, using a novel hybrid approach. More than 800 CPUs of Grid'5000 were used for solving this problem out of a total of 1200 CPUs. More details on the [[Lille:Flow-shop contest|Flow-shop contest]] page. | ||
[[Image:School2006Title2.jpg|Grid5000:School2006|200px|left]] | [[Image:School2006Title2.jpg|Grid5000:School2006|200px|left]] |
Revision as of 11:30, 13 December 2005
5000 CPUs distributed in 9 sites for research in Grid Computing, eScience and Cyber-infrastructures
Latest newsANR projects & Grid'5000December 10th, 2005: Three of the accepted ANR projects (CIGC call) will use Grid'5000 as their research infrastructure. Grid'5000 tests of new approaches for solving 'flow-shop scheduling' problemsDecember 9th, 2005: The Dolphin Team From LIFL and INRIA Futurs solved (exact solution) the flow-shop scheduling problem for the instance of 50 Jobs on 20 machines, using a novel hybrid approach. More than 800 CPUs of Grid'5000 were used for solving this problem out of a total of 1200 CPUs. More details on the Flow-shop contest page. Grid'5000 Spring SchoolThe event will take place in Grenoble (France) between March 6th and March 10th 2006. More information on Grid5000:School2006 |
Grid'5000 at a glance
- Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 CPUs:
Sites:
- The main purpose of this platform is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing.
- This project is one initiative of the French ACI Grid incentive (see below: Funding Institutions) which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.
Introduction
- Grid'5000 is a research effort developping a large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research.
- 17 laboratories are involved, nation wide, in the objective of providing the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications:
|
Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers |
The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 clusters, each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network. All clusters will be connected to Renater at 1 Gb/s (10 Gb/s is expected in near future).
This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.
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 CPUs per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.
Funding Institutions
Ministère de l'Education, de la Jeunesse et de la Recherche |
ACI Grid |
INRIA |
CNRS |
UniversitiesUniversity of Paris Sud, Orsay |
Regional councilsBretagne General CouncilsAlpes Maritimes |