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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000 for the 2008-2012 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 Tutorial at CLCAR 2009 in Venezuela Yiannis Georgiou will present a Grid5000 tutorial at the 2nd edition of Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) held in Merida, Venezuela (21-25 September 2009). Latest updated experiment descriptions {{#experiments:3}} Latest updated publications Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2517 overall): Cyrille Bonamy, Laurent Bourgès, Laurent Lefèvre. Impact des langages de programmation sur la performance énergétique des applications de calcul scientifique : un challenge ?. JRES 2022 - Journées Réseau de l’Enseignement et de la Recherche, RENATER, May 2022, Marseille, France. hal-03607468 view on HAL pdf Chih-Kai Huang, Guillaume Pierre. Acala: Aggregate Monitoring for Geo-Distributed Cluster Federations. SAC 2023 - 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Mar 2023, Tallinn, Estonia. pp.1-9. hal-03899133 view on HAL pdf David Sierra González, Anshul Paigwar, Özgür Erkent, Christian Laugier. MultiLane: Lane Intention Prediction and Sensible Lane-Oriented Trajectory Forecasting on Centerline Graphs. ITSC 2022 - 25th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, Sep 2022, Macao, China. pp.1-8. hal-03790450 view on HAL pdf Danilo Carastan dos Santos, Thi Hoang Thi Pham. Understanding the Energy Consumption of HPC Scale Artificial Intelligence. CARLA 2022 - Latin America High Performance Computing Conference, Sep 2022, Porto Alegre, Brazil. pp.1-14. hal-03845090 view on HAL pdf Reda Khoufache, Mustapha Lebbah, Hanene Azzag, Etienne Goffinet, Djamel Bouchaffra. Distributed Collapsed Gibbs Sampler for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models in Federated Learning. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24), Apr 2024, Houston, Texas, United States. hal-04457596 view on HAL pdf Best Student Demo Award given to Grid'5000 users at Sigmetrics/Performance 2009 at Seattle This award was given to Patrick Loiseau, Romaric Guillier, Oana Goga, Matthieu Imbert, Paulo Goncalves, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA, ENS-Lyon, University of Lyon, France) for their demo Automated Traffic Measurements and Analysis in Grid'5000 demo at the demo session Grid'5000 under extension to Porto Alegre, Brazil July 21st, 2009, INRIA and UFRGS signed a Memorandum of Understanding marking the cooperation of the two institutes towards the extension of the Grid'5000 platform to Brazil. According to the terms of this memo, UFRGS will contribute to Grid'5000 by operating a local site in Porto Alegre and INRIA will fully integrate this local site into Grid'5000 in order to gain an international scale. Researchers from both partners will therefore gain access to one of the major scientific instruments for the study of large-scale parallel and distributed problems in computer science. With this cooperation, Grid'5000 gives its users the possibility to study the effects of inter-continental networks links on these problems. For Grid'5000 users, access to the new site during the integration phase is possible using portoalegre.grenoble as name of the new site Grid'5000 showcased during the Open Days of Bell Labs France June 2nd, 2009, MEtroflux/NXE tools where shown using Grid'5000 during a week during the Open Days of Bell Labs France, demonstrating the potential of Grid'5000 as a research instrument. read more news

Grid'5000 at a glance

Grid'5000 sites

• Grid'5000 is a scientific instrument for the study of large scale parallel and distributed systems. It aims at providing a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental platform to its users. The initial aim (circa 2003) was to reach 5000 processors in the platform. It has been reframed at 5000 cores, and was reached during winter 2008-2009.
• The infrastructure of Grid'5000 is geographically distributed on different sites hosting the instrument, initialy 9 in France. Porto Alegre, Brazil is now officially becoming the 10th site.

Sites:

Bordeaux Grenoble Lille

Lyon Nancy Orsay Porto Alegre

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

Grid'5000 allows experiments in all these software layers

• Grid'5000 is a research effort developping a large scale nation wide infrastructure for large scale parallel and distributed computing research.

• 17 laboratories are involved in France with the objective of providing the community a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.

The current plans are to extend from the 9 initial sites each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network to a bigger platform including a few sites outside France not necessarily connected through a dedicated network connection. Sites in Brazil and Luxembourg should join shortly.

All sites in France are connected to RENATER with a 10Gb/s link.

This high collaborative research effort is funded by INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.

Initial 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.

Current funding

As from June 2008, INRIA is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA	CNRS
Universities University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble University of Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux University Lille 1, Lille Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon	Regional councils Aquitaine Bretagne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Nord Pas de Calais Lorraine