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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000 for the 2008-2011 period An 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 Grid'5000 spring school now running The Grid'5000 spring school is sheduled between April 7, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. Presentation program as well as details on the practical sessions are now available. Latest updated experiment descriptions {{#experiments:3}} Latest updated publications Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2924 overall): Hugo Thomas, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot. Recherche de relation à partir d’un seul exemple fondée sur un modèle N-way K-shot : une histoire de distracteurs. 35èmes Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP 2024) 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2024) 26ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL 2024), Jul 2024, Toulouse, France. pp.157-168. hal-04623015 view on HAL pdf Igor Fontana de Nardin, Patricia Stolf, Stéphane Caux. BEASY: Making EASY backfilling renewable-only. 35th IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2023), IEEE, Oct 2023, Porto Alegre, Brazil. pp.57-67, 10.1109/SBAC-PAD59825.2023.00015. hal-04206083 view on HAL pdf Guillaume Rosinosky, Donatien Schmitz, Etienne Rivière. StreamBed: Capacity Planning for Stream Processing. DEBS 2024 - 18th ACM International Conference on Distributed and Event-based Systems, Jun 2024, Lyon, France. pp.90-102, 10.1145/3629104.3666034. hal-04708354 view on HAL pdf Igor Fontana de Nardin. Ordonnancement en ligne de tâches IT et engagement de sources dans un centre de calcul alimenté par des énergies renouvelables. Réseaux et télécommunications cs.NI. Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT, 2023. Français. NNT : 2023INPT0104. tel-04361471 view on HAL pdf Georges da Costa, Atom Deutsch-Filippi, Igor Fontana de Nardin, Jean-Marc Nicod, Veronika Rehn-Sonigo, et al.. Cooperative vs. non-cooperative marketplace for computing jobs to be run on geo-distributed data centers only supplied by renewable energies. Cluster Computing, 2025, 28 (10), pp.637. 10.1007/s10586-025-05300-5. hal-05239473 view on HAL pdf First INRIA-CEA workshop held on deployment and scheduling in large infrastructures This workshop, held noon to noon January 22nd-23rd discussed common problems faced when dealing with deployment and scheduling in large infrastructures. Most participants are visible in the photo on the right of this page. Grid'5000 spring school to be held in Nancy, in April 2009 A Grid'5000 spring school is in preparation for 4 days between April 7, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. A dedicated page has been setup, which includes a call for presentations and practical sessions. read more news

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 processors:

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 (see below: Funding Institutions) which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.

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

• 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	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 / Université Paul Sabatier, 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 Lorraine General Councils Alpes Maritimes