Grid5000:Timeline

Project planning

Roadmap

• earlyOrganize in 2006 a Grid'5000 school where users can familiarize with scheduling/deploying tools
• 2005-11-14 : Opening to ACI Masse de Données, ACI Sécurité and possibly external communities for 2006 Grid'5000 Spring School

Décembre 2005

• Document rapport des expériences sur 9 mois pour négocier d’autres financements
• Evaluation à mi-parcours : inviter Michel Bidoit, Brigitte, Thierry, + 1 membre du comité scientifique de l’ACI Grid.

Réflexions

• Réflexions pour augmenter le budget : il faut atteindre au moins 500 CPUs par site pour obtenir les 5000 CPUs. Etablir d’ici fin 2005 un plan de demandes de financement : tous les responsables de sites
• à réfléchir au financement des interfaces 10 Gbps pour RENATER (20 K$) : tous les responsables de sites

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. 2005-06-xx : Assessment on the first 3 months of community usage
   9. 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. 2005-03-15 : Automated WinXP launch (delay measurment)
   7. 2005-03-15 : Real size demos (> 1000 CPU)
   8. 2005-11-14 : Grid achievement: 1041 machines (2082 CPUs) deployed over 9 sites
   9. 2005-11-14 : Security achievement: dedicated VLAN (RENATER)
   10. 2005-11-14 : Control achievement: OAR + KaTools
   11. 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. 2005-03-15 : 1Gb/s dedicated line between all Grid'5000 sites (RENATER)
      1. operational RENATER link for Grenoble
      2. RENATER probes available for Sophia, Grenoble, Rennes, Orsay, Toulouse (and soon Lyon)
5. Discussions and Brainstormings
   1. Operating modes: local clusters vs. Grid'5000
   2. User modes: shared, interactive, batch
   3. Demos: reboot, network, middleware, applications (call for permanent demos)
   4. Experiments census (and call for new proposals)
6. Deadlines
   1. Partial scheduling ready for SC'04 demos (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. 2005-03-15 : Opening to ACI Grid community as soon as possible
   7. 2005-06-xx : Opening to 2nd Plugtest for 2005 October
7. External Communication
   1. see Grid5000:News section
   2. see Grid5000:Publications section
   3. see Grid5000:Press_releases section