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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000 for the 2008-2012 period An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ADT ALADDIN-G5K initiative.

Latest news Best Student Demo Award given to Grid'5000 users at Sigmetrics/Performance 2009 at Seattle This award was given to Patrick Loiseau, Romaric Guillier, Oana Goga, Matthieu Imbert, Paulo Goncalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon, University of Lyon, France) for their demo Automated Traffic Measurements and Analysis in Grid'5000 demo at the demo session Latest updated experiment descriptions {{#experiments:3}} Latest updated publications Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2777 overall): Geo Johns Antony, Marie Delavergne, Adrien Lebre, Matthieu Rakotojaona Rainimangavelo. Thinking out of replication for geo-distributing applications: the sharding case. ICFEC 2024: 8th IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing, May 2024, Philadelphia, United States. pp.1-8, 10.1109/ICFEC61590.2024.00019. hal-04522961 view on HAL pdf Anas Mokhtari, Baptiste Jonglez, Thomas Ledoux. Towards Digital Sustainability: Involving Cloud Users as Key Players. IC2E 2024 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Sep 2024, Paphos, Cyprus. pp.126-132, 10.1109/IC2E61754.2024.00021. hal-04633237 view on HAL pdf Chih-Kai Huang, Guillaume Pierre. Aggregate Monitoring for Geo-Distributed Kubernetes Cluster Federations. IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, 2024, 12 (4), pp.1449-1462. 10.1109/TCC.2024.3482574. hal-04736577 view on HAL pdf Houssam Elbouanani, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, Thierry Turletti. Troubleshooting Distributed Network Emulation. Annals of Telecommunications - annales des télécommunications, 2024, 79 (April), pp.227-239. 10.1007/s12243-024-01010-y. hal-04373896 view on HAL pdf Romain Xu-Darme, Julien Girard-Satabin, Darryl Hond, Gabriele Incorvaia, Zakaria Chihani. Contextualised Out-of-Distribution Detection using Pattern Identification. Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security. SAFECOMP 2023 Workshops, Sep 2023, Toulouse, France. cea-04254022 view on HAL pdf Grid'5000 under extension to Porto Alegre, Brazil July 21st, 2009, INRIA and UFRGS signed a Memorandum of Understanding marking the cooperation of the two institutes towards the extension of the Grid'5000 platform to Brazil. According to the terms of this memo, UFRGS will contribute to Grid'5000 by operating a local site in Porto Alegre and INRIA will fully integrate this local site into Grid'5000 in order to gain an international scale. Researchers from both partners will therefore gain access to one of the major scientific instruments for the study of large-scale parallel and distributed problems in computer science. With this cooperation, Grid'5000 gives its users the possibility to study the effects of inter-continental networks links on these problems. For Grid'5000 users, access to the new site during the integration phase is possible using portoalegre.grenoble as name of the new site Second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum During Grid'5000 Spring School 2009, Lucas Nussbaum was given the second Grid'5000 award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ALADDIN / Grid'5000. Grid'5000 spring school now finished The Grid'5000 spring school took place between April 7, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. The presentation program is updated with the slides of the presentations as they come in. Most practical sessions are available to people that did not take part during the school. Here and there (pdf) you can read local press coverage. In addition to the second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum for his outsanding contribution to Grid'5000, 3 awards were given for presentation made during the event : Best presentation award to Anne-Cécile Orgerie Best Large Scale Experiment to Benjamin Depardon Most Promising Experiment to Jean-Noël Quintin read more news

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.

Sites:

Bordeaux Grenoble Lille

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 Bretagne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Nord Pas de Calais Lorraine