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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 2925 overall): Rosa Pagano, Sophie Cerf, Bogdan Robu, Quentin Guilloteau, Raphaël Bleuse, et al.. Making Control in High Performance Computing for Overload Avoidance Adaptive in Time and Job Size. CCTA 2024 - 8th IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications, Aug 2024, Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom. pp.1-8. hal-04669743 view on HAL pdf Baptiste Jonglez, Matthieu Simonin, Jolan Philippe, Sidi Mohammed Kaddour. Multi-provider capabilities in EnOSlib: driving distributed system experiments on the edge-to-cloud continuum. DAIS 2025: 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.25-42, 10.1007/978-3-031-95728-4_2. hal-05052776 view on HAL pdf Guillaume Schreiner, Pierre Neyron. SLICES-FR : l’infrastructure de recherche nationale pour l’expérimentation Cloud et Réseaux du futur. JRES 2024 - Journées réseaux de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Renater, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-15. hal-04893845 view on HAL pdf Marc Jourdan, Rémy Degenne, Emilie Kaufmann. An ε-Best-Arm Identification Algorithm for Fixed-Confidence and Beyond. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2023, New Orleans, United States. hal-04306214 view on HAL pdf Pierre Epron, Gaël Guibon, Miguel Couceiro. ORPAILLEUR SyNaLP at CLEF 2024 Task 2: Good Old Cross Validation for Large Language Models Yields the Best Humorous Detection. Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), Sep 2024, Grenoble, France. pp.1841-1856. hal-04696012 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