Publications

Publications about Grid'5000

Main publication (to use when citing Grid'5000)

This paper introduces the testbed's design goals and architecture, its status (from 2012), its main features (reservation with OAR, deployment with Kadeploy, network subnet reservation using g5k-subnets, network isolation using KaVLAN, REST API) and some use cases.

Daniel Balouek, Alexandra Carpen Amarie, Ghislain Charrier, Frédéric Desprez, Emmanuel Jeannot, Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Adrien Lèbre, David Margery, Nicolas Niclausse, Lucas Nussbaum, Olivier Richard, Christian Perez, Flavien Quesnel, Cyril Rohr, and Luc Sarzyniec.
Adding virtualization capabilities to the Grid'5000 testbed.

In Cloud Computing and Services Science, volume 367 of Communications in Computer and Information Science, pages 3-20. Springer International Publishing, 2013.

Available from SpringerLink. PDF for the corresponding research report.

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   title = {Adding Virtualization Capabilities to the {Grid'5000} Testbed},
   author = {Balouek, Daniel and Carpen Amarie, Alexandra and Charrier, Ghislain and Desprez, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Jeannot, Emmanuel and Jeanvoine, Emmanuel and L{\`e}bre, Adrien and Margery, David and Niclausse, Nicolas and Nussbaum, Lucas and Richard, Olivier and P{\'e}rez, Christian and Quesnel, Flavien and Rohr, Cyril and Sarzyniec, Luc},
   booktitle = {Cloud Computing and Services Science},
   publisher = {Springer International Publishing},
   pages = {3-20},
   volume = {367},
   editor = {Ivanov, Ivan I. and van Sinderen, Marten and Leymann, Frank and Shan, Tony },
   series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science },
   isbn = {978-3-319-04518-4 },
   doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-04519-1\_1 },
   year = {2013},
}

Other publications on Grid'5000 design, architecture and features

On Grid'5000's Cloud features. Compared to the main publication above, it also describes the automated deployment of an OpenStack Cloud inside Grid'5000.

Sébastien Badia, Alexandra Carpen-Amarie, Adrien Lèbre, Lucas Nussbaum.
Enabling Large-Scale Testing of IaaS Cloud Platforms on the Grid'5000 Testbed.
In TTC - 1st International Workshop on Testing The Cloud, co-located with ISSTA 2013, pages 7-12. 2013
HAL page (with bibtex), PDF from HAL, slides from HAL

On resources description (with the reference API), selection, reservation (with OAR) and verification (with G5K-checks).

David Margery, Emile Morel, Lucas Nussbaum, and Olivier Richard, Cyril Rohr.
Resources Description, Selection, Reservation and Verification on a Large-scale Testbed.

In TRIDENTCOM - 9th International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Development of Networks & Communities. 2014

HAL page (with bibtex), PDF from HAL, slides from HAL

On Kwapi, our monitoring system for power usage and network traffic during experiments.

Florentin Clouet, Simon Delamare, Jean-Patrick Gelas, Laurent Lefèvre, Lucas Nussbaum, Clément Parisot, Laurent Pouilloux,

and François Rossigneux.
A Unified Monitoring Framework for Energy Consumption and Network Traffic'.
In TRIDENTCOM - International Conference on Testbeds and Research Infrastructures for the Develop- ment of Networks & Communities, page 10, Vancouver, Canada, June 2015.
HAL page (with bibtex), PDF from HAL

On Kadeploy3, the tool used on Grid'5000 to provide reconfigurability of nodes for a user experiment.

Emmanuel Jeanvoine, Luc Sarzyniec, Lucas Nussbaum.
Kadeploy3: Efficient and Scalable Operating System Provisioning for Clusters.

In USENIX ;login: 38, 1 (2013) 38-44. 2013

HAL page (with bibtex), PDF from HAL

Former reference publication about Grid'5000 (in JHPCA, 2006):

Raphaël Bolze, Franck Cappello, Eddy Caron, Michel Dayde, Frédéric Desprez, Emmanuel Jeannot, Yvon Jégou, Stephane Lanteri, Julien Leduc, Nouredine Melab, Guillaume Mornet, Raymond Namyst, Pascale Primet, 10, Benjamin Quétier, Olivier Richard, Talbi El-Ghazali, Iréa Touche.

Grid'5000: A Large Scale And Highly Reconfigurable Experimental Grid Testbed.
In International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications 20, 4 (2006) 481-494
HAL page (with bibtex), PDF available on SagePub

An earlier version of this publication was published at Grid'05 (2005):
Franck Cappello, Eddy Caron, Michel Dayde, Frederic Desprez, Yvon Jegou, Pascale Primet, Emmanuel Jeannot, Stephane Lanteri, Julien Leduc, Nouredine Melab, Guillaume Mornet, Raymond Namyst, Benjamin Quetier, Olivier Richard.
Grid'5000: a large scale and highly reconfigurable grid experimental testbed.
In GRID'05 - 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing. 2005

PDF available from IEEE Xplore

Publications from Grid'5000 users

Lists of publications by Grid'5000 users are available from the HAL Open Access platform (a breakdown by research structures (labs, teams) is also available to Grid'5000 users)

Note: if you used Grid'5000 in your work, please refer to the Usage Policy to learn how to acknowledge it.