Grid5000:Timeline

Project planing

What has been done so far

1. Financial Supports
   1. "ACI Grid" with 2 calls for Grid'5000
   2. "ACI Masse de Données" with GriD eXplorer
   3. Local fundings (regions + departments)
   4. INRIA fundings
   5. 2 "AS CNRS" (Grid5000 and Grid Programming)
2. Management and Internal Communication
   1. 1 Steering Committee + 1 Technical Committee
   2. Frequent audioconferences for each committee
   3. Wiki online interactive workspace
   4. Regular meetings with RENATER
   5. Public web site
   6. 1 Mailing list for each committee
   7. [...]
   8. 2005-11-14 : Wiki and public web site merged on a single portal
3. Technical Achievements
   1. Grid prototype: 775 machines deployed over 9 sites
   2. Security prototype: operational VPN (VTUN)
   3. Control prototype: OAR
   4. Monitoring prototype: Nagios
   5. [...]
   6. 2005-11-14 : Grid achievement: 1041 machines (2082 CPUs) deployed over 9 sites
   7. 2005-11-14 : Security achievement: dedicated VLAN (RENATER)
   8. 2005-11-14 : Control achievement: OAR + KaTools
   9. 2005-11-14 : Monitoring achievement: Monika, OARGantt, Ganglia, Nagios
4. Partnerships
   1. 3 calls opened (CCTP written and approved by the Steering Committee)
      1. information exchange (Benchmarks, Costs, CPU availability, etc.)
   2. 1Gb/s dedicated line between Grid'5000 sites (RENATER)
5. Discussions and Brainstormings
   1. Operating modes: local clusters vs. Grid'5000
   2. User modes: shared, interactive, batch
   3. Demos: reboot, network, middleware, applications
   4. Experiments census
6. Deadlines
   1. Schedule: partial demo for SC'04 (2004 November)
   2. Progressive prototype deployment up to 2004 October following a roadmap
   3. Switch to real equipment after 2004 October
   4. Opening to the full Grid'5000 community after 2005 January
   5. [...]
   6. 2005-11-14 : Opening to external communities after 2006 January
7. External Communication
   1. see Press releases section