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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000for the 2008-2011 periodAn infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by Inria, under the ADT ALADDIN-G5K initiative. |
Latest news Latest updated experiment descriptions{{#experiments:3}} Latest updated publicationsFive random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2925 overall):
Grid'5000 spring school to be held in Nancy, in April 2009A 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. Grid'5000 seminars and tutorials organized on most Grid'5000 sitesThe slides are available online.  Grid'5000 at SC'08Grid'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 2008Anyone 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.
 First ALADDIN-G5K award given to Olivier RichardDuring 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 startedALADDIN-G5K, INRIA's action to support Grid'5000 during the next 4 years has now officially been accepted. A Kick-off meeting was held July 9-10, 2008 and the technical staff is now recruiting.
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Grid'5000 at a glance
- 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 processors:
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- 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 (see below: Funding Institutions) which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.
- 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.
The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 local platform (at least one cluster per site), each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network.
All clusters will be connected to Renater with a 10Gb/s link (or at least 1 Gb/s, when 10Gb/s is not available yet).
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 processors 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
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ACI Grid
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INRIA
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CNRS
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UniversitiesUniversity of Paris Sud, Orsay |
Regional councilsBretagne General CouncilsAlpes Maritimes |
