Starter-level practice audience is Grid'5000 platform new-comers, who wish to make a quick tour of the platform functionalities, in order to efficiently step in. If you are in a hurry, you can start with the Getting started tutorial.

• 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: SSH, Rsync, monitoring
  • Requirements: basic knowledge of UNIX environments
  • Authors: Xavier Delaruelle, Jérôme Castang

• The FAQ and the Glossary, of course
• Public key authentication: understand the principles behind ssh
• SSH: how to configure ssh for Grid'5000
• Syncing data: how to synchronize your data across sites using Rsync

Basic tutorials give users the basic tools to use the platform in order to setup their experiment environment.

• 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

• 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

• Running MPI on Grid'5000 (2 hours): Different ways to configure Grid'5000 for MPI usage
  • Keywords: MPI
  • Requirements: knowledge of starter-level tutorials
  • Authors: David Margery, Aurélien Ceyden, Nicolas Niclausse

• Deploying virtual machines with Kadeploy 3 (2 hours): Deploying virtual machines with Kadeploy 3
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, Xen
  • Requirements: knowledge of deployment tutorial
  • Authors: Cyril Constantin

• Screen: avoid loosing a session due to disconnection between your machine and Grid'5000
• TakTuk: efficient parallel launcher
• Network isolation on Grid'5000: use KaVLAN to put your nodes in a VLAN for better network isolation
• Storage5k: persist datasets between experiments
• Metroflux: traffic monitoring
• PDSH: a parallel shell

• Adding hardware support: changing an environment so it supports new hardware
• Using TakTuk: efficient parallel launcher
• PhpMyAdmin: management of a database from your machine

Tutorials contributed by users for specific technologies or usage of Grid'5000 are listed here

• Put Some Green In Your Grid'5000 Experiments! (2 hours): How to use the provided energy collecting tools to monitor user's reservations.
  • Keywords: Energy monitoring, green HPC, virtual machines, live migration
  • Requirements: ability to connect to Grid'5000
  • Authors: M. Dias de Assunção, L. Lefèvre, O. Mornard, A.-C. Orgerie

• 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

• Grid computation with MPI (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

• Running Hadoop on Grid'5000 (2 hours): How to deploy a MapReduce computing environment in Grid'5000
  • Keywords: Hadoop, MapReduce, Kadeploy
  • Requirements: knowledge of deployment tutorial
  • Authors: Author:Vinicius Cogo, Author:Marcelo Pasin, Author:Andrea Charão

• 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

• Deploying and Using IaaS Clouds on Grid'5000 (2 hours): How to deploy and use Nimbus and OpenNebula on Grid'5000
  • Keywords: cloud computing, IaaS, virtualization
  • Requirements: ability to connect to Grid'5000
  • Authors: Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Houssem-Eddine Chihoub, Pierre Riteau

• Creating Customized Grid'5000 Environments with Chef (2 hours): How to use Chef to customize Kadeploy environment
  • Keywords: Kadeploy, Chef, environment customization
  • Requirements: ability to connect to Grid'5000
  • Authors: Pierre Riteau