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Grid'5000 Grid'5000 is a large-scale and versatile testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing including Cloud, HPC and Big Data. Key features: provides access to a large amount of resources: 12000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: GPU, SSD, NVMe, 10G and 25G Ethernet, Infiniband, Omni-Path highly reconfigurable and controllable: researchers can experiment with a fully customized software stack thanks to bare-metal deployment features, and can isolate their experiment at the networking layer advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption, providing a deep understanding of experiments designed to support Open Science and reproducible research, with full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed a vibrant community of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team Read more about our teams, our publications, and the usage policy of the testbed. Then get an account, and learn how to use the testbed with our Getting Started tutorial and the rest of our Users portal. Recently published documents and presentations: Presentation of Grid'5000 during the 1st Grid'5000-FIT school (April 2018) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018) Older documents: https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014] Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014) Grid'5000 is supported by a scientific interest group (GIS) hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations. Inria has been supporting Grid'5000 through ADT ALADDIN-G5K (2007-2013), ADT LAPLACE (2014-2016), and IPL HEMERA (2010-2014).

Current status (at 2019-05-23 21:13): No current events, None planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2030 overall):

• Mehdi Zitouni, Reza Akbarinia, Sadok Ben Yahia, Florent Masseglia. Massively Distributed Environments and Closed Itemset Mining: The DCIM Approach. CAiSE: Advanced Information Systems Engineering, Jun 2017, Essen, Germany. pp.231-246, 10.1007/978-3-319-59536-8_15. lirmm-01620238 view on HAL pdf
• Hadrien Croubois. Toward an autonomic engine for scientific workflows and elastic Cloud infrastructure. Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.DC. Université de Lyon, 2018. English. NNT : 2018LYSEN061. tel-01988995 view on HAL pdf
• Ichrak Mehrez. Auto-tuning pour la détection automatique du meilleur format de compression pour matrice creuse. Automatique. Université Paris-Saclay; Université de Tunis El-Manar. Faculté des Sciences de Tunis (Tunisie), 2018. Français. NNT : 2018SACLV054. tel-01959289 view on HAL pdf
• Matthieu Zimmer, Yann Boniface, Alain Dutech. Developmental Reinforcement Learning through Sensorimotor Space Enlargement. ICDL-EPIROB 2018 - 8th joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics, Sep 2018, Tokyo, Japan. pp.1-6. hal-01876995v2 view on HAL pdf
• Alexandre Santana, Vinicius Freitas, Marcio Castro, Laércio Lima Pilla, Jean-François Méhaut. Reducing Global Schedulers' Complexity Through Runtime System Decoupling. WSCAD 2018 - XIX Simpósio de Sistemas Computacionais de Alto Desempenho, Oct 2018, São Paulo, Brazil. pp.1-12. hal-01873526 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

More than 2000 documents in Grid'5000's HAL collection!

Grid'5000 uses a collection in the HAL Open Archive to track publications that benefited from the testbed. This collection now includes more than 2000 documents, including 1396 publications (journals and conferences articles, book chapters, etc.), 268 PhD theses, 44 HDRs, and 302 unpublished documents such as research reports !

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:00, 13 May 2019 (CET)

Availability of scientific and HPC software using "module" command

Additional scientific and HPC related software are now available on Grid'5000

nodes and frontends, using the "module" command. For instance, newest versions of GCC, Cuda, OpenMPI are available this way.

To get the list of available software, use:

 module av                                                                     

To load a specific software into your environment, use:

 module load <software_name>                      

Please note that module command overloads some of your environment variables, such $PATH (internally we use Spack to build those modules).

Please also note that some software requires an access to a licence server.

More information at : https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Software_using_modules

-- Grid'5000 Team 17:00, 6 May 2019 (CET)

Pierre Neyron awarded Médaille de Cristal du CNRS

Pierre Neyron, who has been a member of the Grid'5000 technical staff since the early years of the project, has been awarded the "Médaille de Cristal de CNRS".

Quoting http://www.cnrs.fr/fr/talents/cnrs?medal=42 :

La médaille de cristal distingue les ingénieurs, techniciens et agents administratifs qui, par leur créativité, leur maîtrise technique et leur sens de l'innovation, contribuent aux côtés des chercheurs à l'avancée des savoirs et à l'excellence de la recherche française.

Congratulations Pierre!

-- Grid'5000 Team 13:00, 16 April 2019 (CET)

Disk reservation feature update: more clusters and usable from the standard environment (sudo-g5k)

The disk reservation feature, which allows one to reserve on node local disks, is now available on more clusters:

• yeti in Grenoble
• chifflet, chifflot and chiclet in Lille
• parasilo in Rennes
• grimoire in Nancy

See the Disk reservation tutorial to understand how to take benefit from this feature.

Also please note that reserved disks are now also exploitable using sudo-g5k in the standard environment (does not require a deploy job).

-- Grid'5000 Team 13:00, 20 March 2019 (CET)

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Grid'5000 sites

Grenoble Lille Luxembourg

Lyon Nancy Nantes

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

Current funding

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

INRIA	CNRS
Universities Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP Université Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux Université Lille 1, Lille École Normale Supérieure, Lyon	Regional councils Aquitaine Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Bretagne Champagne-Ardenne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Hauts de France Lorraine