From Grid5000

This page presents a list of experiments to be done on Grid'5000. Since many experiments are proposed, we also give a summary of the proposed experiments.

Contents 1 Networking 1.1 End Host Communication layer 1.2 High performance long distance protocols 1.3 High Speed Network Emulation 1.4 Grid Networking Layer 2 Middleware 2.1 Grid'5000 control 2.2 Scheduling / distribution 2.3 Fault tolerance 2.4 Management 2.5 Global Computing/P2P Middleware 2.6 Grid SSI OS and Grid I/O 3 Programming 3.1 Component programming on the grid 3.2 RPC Environment 3.3 MPI Environment 3.4 Code Coupling 4 Applications 4.1 Multi-parametric applications 4.2 Large scale experimentation of distributed message passing applications 4.3 Distributed computing and interactive visualization of 3D numerical simulations (Caiman and Oasis project-teams) 4.4 Collaborative environment 4.5 Computational Electromagnetism application (JEM3D) 4.6 Massively parallel computations in multi-material fluid mechanics 4.7 Study of numerical algorithms for heterogeneous computing platforms 4.8 Interoperable medical image registration grid service 4.9 Evaluation of parallel optimization algorithms based on interval analysis techniques 4.10 Study of load balancing strategies on heterogeneous resources

Networking

End Host Communication layer

• Intelligent Usage of NICs for local and wide area communications
• Direct file access over Myrinet : ORFA/NFS and ORFA/LUSTRE

High performance long distance protocols

• Alternative Transport for very high speed networks (backpressure)
• Differentiated transport with delay control on WAN
• Reliable active and non active Multicast
• Network Bandwidth optimization in Grid (VTHD++, Paco++).

High Speed Network Emulation

• Automatic Deployment of emulated high speed domains
• Experiment design for grid flow interactions studies

Grid Networking Layer

• Network Resource and QoS on demand
• Grid Overlay and Programmable Routers
• Measurement Services for network aware middleware

Middleware

Grid'5000 control

• Computing Environment deployment (Ka-tools)
• Experiment automation (security and control
• VGrid « mapping a virtual Grid on a real testbed »
• Monitoring, benchmarking, performance characterization and analysis

Scheduling / distribution

• Scheduling : Data transfers, global communications, work stealing,...
• Data re-distribution in Grid
• Task distribution and load balancing in heterogeneous Grid
• Mixed Parallelism (task and data parallelism)
• Mixing data management and task scheduling
• Hierarchical and Distributed Scheduling

Fault tolerance

• Fault tolerant Grid-RPC (RPC-V)
• Hierarchical Fault tolerant MPI (MPICH-V)
• Fault tolerant in data-flow approach (Athapascan)

Management

• AROMA tool : resources management over a Grid of clusters with different classes of services
• Mobile agents for open Grid management
• Management of Grids and hosted services (security, QoS, monitoring & control, dynamic configuration, ...)
• Optimization for wide area distributed query processing
• Virtualization of data storage on Grids
• Automatic Deployment of GridRPC middle tier.
• Multiclusters and lightweights Grid resource management (OAR/CIGRI)

Global Computing/P2P Middleware

• Executing Web Services on Desktop Grid Workers (XtremWeb)
• Distributing the Coordination in Desktop Grids (XtremWeb)
• Harnessing Clusters as parallel Workers
• Probabilistic certification in peer-to-peer systems
• Large Scale Data Sharing Service based on JXTA (JuxMem)
• Experimenting management services for textual document in P2P systems

Grid SSI OS and Grid I/O

• Grid file system (NFSG)
• Grid-aware OS (Kerrighed)
• Coupling Computational Grid with Reality Center

Programming

Component programming on the grid

• ProActive : a JAVA library (parallel, distributed, concurrent computing with security and mobility)
• Assessment of scalability, deployment, security and fault tolerance issues
• Hierarchical components architecture
• PadicoTM/Paco++ combining parallel and distributed computing

RPC Environment

• Large scale experimentation of the DIET platform (Distributed Interactive Engineering Toolbox)
• Client/Agent/Server model following the GridRPC standard with distributed scheduling agents

MPI Environment

• Time sharing Grid resources
• Migration over Clusters with heterogeneous high speed networks

Code Coupling

• Application coupling with Athapascan
• Communication / method invocation rescheduling into ORB (HOMA)
• Fluid transfer simulation and geological code with PadicoTM/Paco++

Applications

Multi-parametric applications

• ACI GRID-TLSE Project : expertise site for sparse linear algebra
• Climate modeling and Global Change
• DataGène Project : Functional genomic

Large scale experimentation of distributed message passing applications

• JECS: a JAVA Environment for Computational Steering

Distributed computing and interactive visualization of 3D numerical simulations (Caiman and Oasis project-teams)

Collaborative environment

Computational Electromagnetism application (JEM3D)

• MECAGRID (ACI GRID project, Smash project-team)

Massively parallel computations in multi-material fluid mechanics

Study of numerical algorithms for heterogeneous computing platforms

• Grid computing for medical applications (Epidaure project-team)

Interoperable medical image registration grid service

• Optimal design of complex systems (Coprin project-team)

Evaluation of parallel optimization algorithms based on interval analysis techniques

Study of load balancing strategies on heterogeneous resources

• CFD, astrophysics,… applications
• Collaborating tools in virtual 3D environment.