Starter

Starter-level practice audience is Grid'5000 platform new-comers, who wish to make a quick tour of the platform fonctionnalities, in order to efficiently step in.

• Understanding Grid'5000 (30 minutes): A step by step view of the project leading to First_steps
  • Keywords: wiki, hardware, network, services
  • Requirements: none
  • Authors: Philippe Marty, Benjamin Dexheimer

• Cluster experiment (1 hour): How to setup a cluster experiment on Grid'5000 and then conduct it.
  • Keywords: OAR, SSH, monitoring
  • Requirements: basic knowledge of UNIX environments
  • Authors: Xavier Delaruelle, Jérôme Castang

• Grid experiment (1 hour): How to setup a grid experiment on Grid'5000 and then conduct it.
  • Keywords: OAR Grid, SSH, Rsync, monitoring
  • Requirements: basic knowledge of UNIX environments
  • Authors: Xavier Delaruelle, Jérôme Castang

Advanced

Advanced-level tutorials aim at learning to the platform users how to manipulate Kadeploy environments, in order to setup their experiment environment.

• Deploy an environment (2 hours): How to find, deploy and customize an environment.
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, OAR
  • Requirements: knowledge of starter-level tutorials
  • Authors: David Margery

• Discovering Grid'5000's API (2 hours): How to use Grid'5000 API, with application to the Reference API and the Monitoring API
  • Keywords: API
  • Requirements: knowledge of starter-level tutorials
  • Authors: Cyril Rohr

• Deploying virtual machines with Kadeploy 2.1.8 (2 hours): Deploying virtual machines with Kadeploy 2.1.8
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, Xen
  • Requirements: knowledge of deployment tutorial
  • Authors: Cyril Constantin

• Non-Linux system deployment, example with FreeBSD (2 hours): Deploying operating systems other than Linux with kadeploy
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, FreeBSD
  • Requirements: knowledge of deployment tutorial
  • Authors: Lucas Nussbaum

User contributed

• Grid computation (2 hours): How to use MPI on Grid'5000 for High Performance Computing.
  • Keywords: MPI, C
  • Requirements: basic knowledge of UNIX environments, C programing skills
  • Authors: Luiz-Angelo Steffenel

• Grid Reservation Utility for Deployment Usage (2 hours): How to use a GUI to reserve resources and find, deploy and customize an environment.
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, OAR
  • Requirements: ability to connect to Grid'5000
  • Authors: David Loureiro

• DIET Introductory Hands-On (4 hours): This is a basic tutorial introducing how to use the Diet (Distributive Interactive Engineering Toolbox) middleware on Grid'5000.
  • Keywords: DIET
  • Requirements: ability to connect to Grid'5000
  • Authors: Benjamin Depardon

Deprecated

Expert-level tutorials easily become deprecated, but present some platform uses for more specialised contexts and for experiments needing deeper modifications than those presented in advanced-level tutorials: deploying complex middleware, aiding the development and the evaluation of distributed operating systems, using non-Linux operating systems, customizing global grid environments.

• Deploy a grid *deprecated* (2 hours): How to deploy an environment allowing to build a grid inside the grid (as an example of a complex architecture deployment).
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, OAR, TORQUE, Maui
  • Requirements: knowledge of starter-level tutorials
  • Authors: Nicolas Capit, Yiannis Georgiou, Olivier Richard

• Globus *deprecated* (2 hours): This tutorial presents Globus mechanisms, then the adaptation and technical choices made to install it within Grid'5000. Finally, it propose kind of a using the Globus Toolkit in practice.
  • Keywords: Globus, GT4, Web Services, GT2, MPICH-G2, Kadeploy
  • Requirements: knowledge of advanced-level tutorials
  • Authors: Christophe Demarey, Julien Garet, Estelle Gabarron

• Kernel development testing *deprecated* (1 hour 30 minutes): How to evaluate, debug and validate kernel developments targeted at parallel architectures thanks to Kadeploy.
  • Keywords: Kernel, Kareboot, Kaconsole
  • Requirements: knowledge of advanced-level tutorials, basic knowledge of kernel development
  • Authors: Adrien Lebre

• Multi-site environment creation *deprecated* (1 hour 30 minutes): How to create multi-site Kadeploy environments.
  • Keywords: Kernel, Initrd, Kadeploy
  • Requirements: knowledge of advanced-level tutorials, basic knowledge of kernel compilation
  • Authors: Julien Leduc

• Non-Linux system deployment *deprecated* (1 hour 30 minutes): How to deploy BSD-like or Solaris-like operating systems on Grid'5000.
  • Keywords: FreeBSD, OpenSolaris, Partition, DD, Kadeploy
  • Requirements: knowledge of advanced-level tutorials
  • Authors: Lucas Nussbaum