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Past events Grid'5000 Spring School 2011 awards announced Best presentation award to Simon Delamare Best presentation award to Simon Delamare Challenger Winner 2011 to Rodrigue Chakode 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. 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. 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. Grid'5000 Spring School 2011 announced from April 18th to April 21st Organized in Reims, from April 18th to April 21st 2011, this spring school will bring together, but is not limited to, Grid'5000's users, technical team and executive committee for 4 days of tutorials and talks focusing on best-practices and results. Presentations and practical sessions will cover both basic usage of the platform, for new users, or potential users of Grid'5000 and advanced and new usage of the platform, for current users. Screencast of latest webUI developments available A screencast demoing the latest developments in the user interface built on top of the API's is now available. These developments showcase in particular how the webUI can help you understand and aggregate the metrics of an experiment to help you check whether what is happening is what you are expecting. Remember that the API exposes all the data used by the webUI: you can build your own comparable tools. Grid'5000 usage featured in iSGTW Pierre Riteau's work has once again reached the news: Miriam Boon, iSGTW, reports on sky computing G5kSS10 Challenge winner: deploying a sky computing environment (3 clouds) based on Nimbus in 30mn ! The Grid'5000 Spring School challenge winner is Pierre Riteau, who demonstrated the deployment of a sky computing environment based on nimbus in 31mn ! These include the deployment of the nodes using kadeploy3 and their configuration to form a sky computing environment located in 3 sites and managing 278 VMMs providing 1628 virtual cpus and 2 124 Gb of memory. Details in the winner's presentation, or on Dr Dobbs. The runner-up is Marko Obrovac, who demonstrated scripts enabling the deployment of XtreemOS on Grid'5000. The script brought up an linux-ssi favour version of XtreemOS putting a virtual SMP of 156 processors online in less than 30mn. Each win an ipod touch for their entry. (image ©-maxime-dufour-photographies) Grid'5000 Spring School 2010 award winners announced The Grid'5000 spring school took place between April 6th, 2010 and April 9th, 2010 in Lille. This highly successful edition brought together 78 registered participants for 4 days of tutorials and talks focusing on best-practices, results and links to other tools for experiment-driven research. The presentation program has been updated with the slides of the presentations. Most practical sessions are available to people that did not take part during the school. Two awards were given for presentations made during the event : (image ©-maxime-dufour-photographies) Best presentation award to Cristian Klein Best presentation award to Cristian Klein Most Significant Experiment for the progress of Grid'5000 to Emmanuel Thomé Most Significant Experiment for the progress of Grid'5000 to Emmanuel Thomé Research in Grids - Production Grids workshop held October 13th, 2009 L’Institut des Grilles (IdG) et l’action Aladdin INRIA lancent un appel commun à propositions pour dynamiser les recherches à l’interface entre la recherche sur les grilles, les grilles de recherche, et les grilles de production. Le colloque présentera les questions ouvertes aux interfaces et les projets proposés dans le cadre de cet appel, afin de favoriser la création de nouveaux réseaux. Le but de la journée est de faire émerger des synergies. La présentation de travaux en cours est donc vivement encouragée. Plus d’informations. Grid'5000 Spring School 2010 announced (online or offline Registrations now opened) Organized in Lille, from April 6th to April 9th 2010, this spring school will bring together, but is not limited to, Grid'5000's users, technical team and executive committee for 4 days of tutorials and talks focusing on best-practices and results. Presentations and practical sessions will cover both basic usage of the platform, for new users, or potential users of Grid'5000 and advanced and new usage of the platform, for current users. A challenge to showcase tools and environments demonstrating the deployment of distributed or Grid middleware on Grid'5000 will be held this year for the first time. (image ©-maxime-dufour-photographies) Research in Grids - Production Grids workshop held October 13th, 2009 L’Institut des Grilles (IdG) et l’action Aladdin INRIA lancent un appel commun à propositions pour dynamiser les recherches à l’interface entre la recherche sur les grilles, les grilles de recherche, et les grilles de production. Le colloque présentera les questions ouvertes aux interfaces et les projets proposés dans le cadre de cet appel, afin de favoriser la création de nouveaux réseaux. Le but de la journée est de faire émerger des synergies. La présentation de travaux en cours est donc vivement encouragée. Plus d’informations. --- Supercomputing and grid computing days at Lille The first edition of the supercomputing and grid computing days at Lille will be held at Université de Lille1 and INRIA Lille - Nord Europe on December 2, 3 and 7, 2009. Half of the event is dedicated to the Grid5000 nation-wide grid infrastructure. A series of presentations including feedbacks on the use of Grid5000 is scheduled together with a one day practical training on it. The detailed program is available at: http://www2.lifl.fr/~melab/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.Journ%e9esCIGIL --- Research in Grids - Production Grids workshop held October 13th, 2009 L’Institut des Grilles (IdG) et l’action Aladdin INRIA lancent un appel commun à propositions pour dynamiser les recherches à l’interface entre la recherche sur les grilles, les grilles de recherche, et les grilles de production. Le colloque présentera les questions ouvertes aux interfaces et les projets proposés dans le cadre de cet appel, afin de favoriser la création de nouveaux réseaux. Le but de la journée est de faire émerger des synergies. La présentation de travaux en cours est donc vivement encouragée. Plus d’informations. Grid'5000 Tutorial at CLCAR 2009 in Venezuela Yiannis Georgiou will present a Grid5000 tutorial at the 2nd edition of Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) held in Merida, Venezuela (21-25 September 2009). 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 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 Grid'5000 showcased during the Open Days of Bell Labs France June 2nd, 2009, MEtroflux/NXE tools where shown using Grid'5000 during a week during the Open Days of Bell Labs France, demonstrating the potential of Grid'5000 as a research instrument. ALADDIN-AWARD 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. Photo of people present at the Grid'5000 Spring School 2009 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 ALADDIN-G5K Grid'5000 spring school to be held in Nancy, in April 2009 A Grid'5000 spring school is in preparation for 3 to 4 days between April 6, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. Expect a call for presentations to be ready during the month of January 2009, but you should already reserve the corresponding dates in your agenda. Photo of people present First INRIA-CEA workshop held on deployment and scheduling in large infrastructures This workshop, held noon to noon January 22nd-23rd discussed common problems faced when dealing with deployment and scheduling in large infrastructures. Most participants are visible in the photo on the right of this page. ALADDIN-G5K Grid'5000 seminars and tutorials organized on most Grid'5000 sites The slides are available online. SuperComputing 2008 Grid'5000 at SC'08 Grid'5000 will be represented at SuperComputing 2008, Austin, Texas (USA). We will be pleased to welcome you at INRIA's booth and present the platform, its tools, and ALADDIN-G5K. Workshop on Grid'5000 and network virtualization to be held in Paris, October 16th 2008 Anyone working on attempting to abstract the Grid'5000 network, locally on one site or globally, should mark this date on her or his agenda. Please refer to Call for participation, program and inscriptions. ALADDIN-AWARD First ALADDIN-G5K award given to Olivier Richard During ALADDIN-G5K's kick-off meeting, Olivier Richard was given the first ALADDIN-G5K award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the architecture and key software of ALADDIN / Grid'5000 ALADDIN-G5K now officially started ALADDIN-G5K, INRIA's action to support Grid'5000 during the next 4 years has now officially been accepted. A Kick-off meeting is planned July 9-10, 2008 and the technical staff is now recruiting. Summer 2007: Grid'5000 - Naregi interconnection The network interconnection between Naregi (Japan grid initiative) and Grid'5000 (Lyon site) is now operational and some preliminary tests began this summer. SuperComputing 2007 Grid'5000 at SC'07 Grid'5000 is present at SuperComputing 2007, Reno, Nevada (USA). We will be pleased to welcome you at INRIA's booth #2433 and present the platform, its tools, and ALADDIN: INRIA forthcoming initiative to further develop the Grid'5000 platform and foster scientific research using the infrastructure. June 2007: Grid Asia 2007 June 5th - 8th, 2007: Grid Asia 2007 will take place in Singapore, China. December 2006: Toward Grid'5000 - DAS-3 interconnection December 4th 2006: Grid'5000 - DAS-3 interconnection workshop took place at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam. November 2006: PlugTest 2006 GRIDS@work: CoreGRID Conference, Grid Plugtests and Contest took place at ETSI Headquarters, Sophia-Antipolis from November, 27th to December, 1st. Paristic 2006 November 2006: Paristic 2006 The 2006's edition of Parsitic was hosted at LORIA in Nancy, from November 22th to 24th. SuperComputing 2006 November 2006: SC'06 SuperComputing 2006 took place in Tampa, Florida (USA) from November 11th to 17th. PlugTest 2006 October 2006: Journées Grid'5000 à Lille October 30th and 31th, Grid'5000 Lille site's days will take place in USTL campus, Villeneuve d'Ascq. Project/platform presentations and tutorials will be proposed. GdX October 2006: Grid eXplorer days October 12th and 13th, IDRIS, Orsay. Grid eXplorer users will present their lastest research results obtained with the Grid eXplorer platform. I-Explosion Project August-September 2006: Grid@5000@Titech After Franck Cappello's visit to Tokyo Institute of Technology, Grid'5000 was presented during the I-Explosion project workshop. June 2006: Grid'5000 Workshop The event will take place in Paris (France) in conjunction with HPDC'2006. More information at IEEE HPDC'2006 March 2006: Grid'5000 Spring School The event took place in Grenoble (France) between March 6th and March 10th 2006. More information on Grid5000:School2006 December 2005: ANR projects & Grid'5000 December 10th, 2005: Three of the accepted ANR projects (CIGC call) will use Grid'5000 as their research infrastructure. December 2005: Grid'5000 helped solving the 'flow-shop scheduling' problem 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. 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. November 2005: Grid'5000 @ Paristic Grid'5000 was presented at Paristic conference. The event took place in Bordeaux (France) between November 21th and November 23th 2005 SuperComputing 2005 November 2005: Grid'5000 @ SC2005 Grid'5000 was exposed at SuperComputing 2005 conference. The conference took place in Seattle Washington State Convention Centre, between November 14th and November 18th 2005, booth #1122. November 2005: Grid'5000 @ Grid'2005 Grid'5000 was presented at Grid'2005 workshop. The workshop took place in Seattle Washington State Convention Centre, between November 13th and November 14th 2005, boot October 2005: 2nd PlugTest Grid'5000 provided one of the core grid platforms used by the 2nd PlugTest experiments between October 10th and October 14th 2005. October 2005: Inauguration Toulouse Toulouse Grid'5000 platform launch gate on October 13th 2005. September 2005: Inauguration Sophia Sophia Grid'5000 platform launch gate on September 30th 2005.