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5000 CPUs distributed in 9 sites for research in Grid Computing, eScience and Cyber-infrastructures

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Grid'5000 at a glance

Grid'5000 sites

• Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 CPUs:

Sites:

Bordeaux Grenoble Lille

Lyon Nancy Orsay

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

• The main purpose of this platform is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing.
• This project is one initiative of the French ACI Grid incentive which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.

Introduction

• Grid'5000 is a research effort developping a large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research.

• 17 laboratories are involved, nation wide, in the objective of providing the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications:

Applications Algorithms Runtime Middleware Operating Systems Network protocols

Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers

The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 clusters, each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network. All clusters will be connected to Renater at 1 Gb/s (10 Gb/s is expected in near future).

This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.

Rationale

The foundations of Grid'5000 have emerged from a thorough analysis and numerous discussions about methodologies used for scientific research in the Grid domain. A report presents the rationale for Grid'5000.

In addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for large scale testbeds where real life experimental conditions hold. The size of Grid'5000, in terms of number of sites and number of CPUs per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.

Funding Institutions

Ministère de l'Education, de la Jeunesse et de la Recherche	ACI Grid
INRIA	CNRS
Universities University of Paris Sud, Orsay University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis University of Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA, Toulouse University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux University Lille 1 / GENOPOLE, Lille Ecole Normale Supérieure / MYRICOM, Lyon	Regional councils Bretagne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Aquitaine Ile de France General Councils Alpes Maritimes