Grid5000:School2009 TPs
Practical session will give participants a hands on experience of tools available for Grid'5000. Some sessions will be based on the online tutorials provided and maintained by the technical staff, and some sessions will present tools or environments developed and maintained by users.
Participants to the School should register for the practical session they intend to take part in here
Talk : Introduction to Grid'5000
This talk is intended as a general introduction of Grid'5000. People who have never used Grid'5000 should register for this talk to get an overview of the instrument, the concepts for its use and an overview of the available tools.
Customizing Grid'5000 with Kadeploy
Description
In this practical session, you will learn to use Kadeploy to deploy a preconfigured environment, customize it, register the customize version and script its deployment.
Information
- Contact author: Aurélien Cedeyn
- Site used for developpment:
- Site restrictions during the school: none
- Tester : David Loureiro
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
GRUDU: Grid Reservation Utility for Deployment Usage
Description
In a grid environment such as Grid’5000, we need several complex tools for the management of re- sources, the allocation of resources to the job or even for the deployment of Kadeploy images. Most grid software systems use command-line interfaces without any Graphical User Interface (GUI). For the creation of a tool dedicated to the management of grid environments, different functions are mandatory. We can consider three main graphical interfaces for such framework: one for resource monitoring, one for resources allocation and one for distant usage (terminal and file access). GRUDU answers the need of an unified set of tools providing the user with a complete, modular, portable, and powerful way to manage grid resources. These three main parts of the software will be the heart of the Practical Session where we will explore the capabilities of GRUDU in a common usage of Grid’5000 (The software must of course first be installed and configured, and a correct ssh configuration must be setup on Grid’5000).
Information
- Contact author: David Loureiro
- Site used for developpment:
- Site restrictions during the school: none
- Tester :
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- JAVA (1.5.0 or higher)
Deploying virtual machines with Kadeploy
Description
In this practical session, you will learn to deploy and configure Xen hypervisors and virtual machines on Grid'5000. You will also learn the basic tools and environment provided by Grid'5000 to ease the use of virtualization technology in Grid'5000 : MAC adress generation, routed IPs availbale to virtual machines, DNS for virtual machines, etc.
Information
- Contact author: Cyril Constantin
- Site used for developpment: Nancy
- Site restrictions during the school: only valid in Nancy
- Tester : Emmanuel Jeanvoine
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
First steps on Grid'5000
Description
The practical session will focus on discovering the Grid'5000 infrastructure. At the end of the practical session, practitioners should be familiar with the different sources of information available to Grid'5000 users, and should be able to connect to all Grid'5000 sites.
Information
- Contact author: Benjamin Dexheimer
- Site used for developpment:
- Site restrictions during the school: none
- Tester : Romain Cavagna
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- web browser
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
Resource allocation with OAR and with OARGRID
Description
This practice is about running jobs on a cluster. You will learn how to access a Grid'5000 cluster, how to install your data and how to run your jobs and visualize them.
Information
- Contact author: Romain Cavagna
- Site used for developpment: Nancy, Rennes and Lyon
- Site restrictions during the school: none
- Tester :
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- web browser
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
Discovering Grid'5000's API
Description
Beginning with the ReferenceAPI tutorial, you will learn how to access the current description of the platform: the sites, clusters, nodes, etc. as well as the description of the platform as it was at a time in the past. We will also show you how to get the latest changes brought on a specific resource, and how to select nodes based on their properties. The MonitoringAPI tutorial builds on the first tutorial and introduces the MonitoringAPI, which returns the status of a specific Grid5000 resource so that you can monitor them or make decisions based on the availability of resources. In particular, you'll learn how to select nodes that match specific criteria in terms of properties and availability.
Information
- Contact author: Cyril Rohr and Bruno Bzeznik
- Site used for development: Rennes and Grenoble
- Site restrictions during the school: proxies only installed in Rennes and Bordeaux, but usable from all sites
- Tester : Pascal Morillon
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- web browser
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
- curl with SSL support
- ideally, ruby v1.8.6 + irb + rubygems (with restclient gem) + libopenssl-ruby1.8 + libjson-ruby1.8 + python v2.4 + python-httplib2 + python-simplejson
Deployment of FreeBSD using Kadeploy
Description
While most users of Grid'5000 use Linux on the compute nodes, Kadeploy also allows to deploy other systems, by recording or writing all the data contained in a disk partition. In this practical session, you will learn more about Kadeploy internals, and, using FreeBSD as an example, you will deploy and record non-linux environments. A tour of recent FreeBSD enhancements, imported from Solaris (DTrace, ZFS) will also be provided.
Information
- Contact author: Lucas Nussbaum
- Site used for developpment: Orsay
- Site restrictions during the school: needs grub
- Tester :
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- web browser
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
Running MPI on Grid'5000 (to be confirmed)
Description
In this practical session, we will explore different techniques to run mpi jobs on Grid'5000, focusing on automatic configuration of the runtime environment (openMPI, MPICH2) using the $OAR_NODE_FILE
Information
- Contact author: Nicolas Niclausse
- Site used for developpment:
- Site restrictions during the school: none
- Tester :
- Site used for tests:
- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
DIET Introductory Hands-On
Description
In the first part of the practical session, we will describe how to write a Diet client-server on a simple example: a scalar by matrix product In the second part of the practical session, we will describe how to write a GoDiet deployment le, and how to use GoDiet to easily deploy a whole Diet hierarchy on Grid'5000 The hands-on will the address: Data persistency to avoid useless transfers, Direct data management using the API, Dagda Implicit data replication using persistency and Explicit data replication through the Dagda API. In the last part, we will describe how to write a simple workflow using services and how to execute it on a Diet hierarchy.
Information
- Contact author: eddy.caron@ens-lyon.fr
- Site used for developpment:
- Site restrictions during the school:
- Tester :
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- Duration :
- Prerequisites on the user's machines :
- ssh to connect to Grid'5000
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