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Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible 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 and AI. Key features:
Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)
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Random pick of publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2035 overall):
- Charles Bouillaguet, Paul Zimmermann. Parallel Structured Gaussian Elimination for the Number Field Sieve. 2019. hal-02098114 view on HAL pdf
- Amélie Aussel, Laure Buhry, Louise Tyvaert, Radu Ranta. A detailed anatomical and mathematical model of the hippocampal formation for the generation of sharp-wave ripples and theta-nested gamma oscillations. Journal of Computational Neuroscience, Springer Verlag, 2018, 45 (3), pp.207. 10.1007/s10827-018-0704-x. hal-01917285 view on HAL pdf
- Genc Tato, Marin Bertier, Etienne Rivière, Cédric Tedeschi. Split and migrate: Resource-driven placement and discovery of microservices at the edge. OPODIS 2019 : 23rd International Conference On Principles Of Distributed Systems, Dec 2019, Neuchâtel, Switzerland. pp.1-16, 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2019.29. hal-02401933 view on HAL pdf
- Genc Tato, Marin Bertier, Etienne Rivière, Cédric Tedeschi. ShareLatex on the Edge: Evaluation of the Hybrid Core/Edge Deployment of a Microservices-based Application. MECC 2018 - 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets, Dec 2018, Rennes, France. pp.1-6. hal-01942807 view on HAL pdf
- Thuy Linh Nguyen, Ramon Nou, Adrien Lebre. YOLO: Speeding up VM Boot Time by reducing I/O operations. Research Report RR-9245, Inria. 2019, pp.1-18. hal-01983626 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
New ARM cluster "Pyxis" available on Lyon (testing queue)
We have the pleasure to announce that a new cluster named "pyxis" is available in the testing queue in Lyon.
It is the first cluster with ARM CPU (ThunderX2 9980) in Grid'5000 ! This cluster is composed of 4 nodes, each of them with 2 ThunderX2 9980 CPU (32 cores/CPU, 4 threads/cores), 256 GB RAM, 2 x 250 GB HDD, 10 Gbps Ethernet. Each node's power consumption is monitored with the wattmetre of Lyon (although it is currently broken¹). It is planned to add Infiniband network to Pyxis.
Pyxis nodes can be reserved in the testing queue (add "-q testing -p cluster='pyxis'" to your OAR submission) and arm64 environments are available to be deployed on this cluster. Beware that as it is a different CPU architecture, compiled programs targeting x86 (such as those provided by module) won't execute.
Any feedback is welcome.
This cluster has been funded by the CPER LECO++ Project (FEDER, Région Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, DRRT, Inria).
¹: https://intranet.grid5000.fr/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11784
-- Grid'5000 Team 11:20, May 14th 2020 (CEST)
A kadeploy image (environment) for Ubuntu 20.04 (ubuntu2004-x64-min) is now available and registered in all sites with Kadeploy, along with other supported environments (Centos 7, Centos 8, Ubuntu 18.04, Debian testing, and various Debian 9 and Debian 10 variants).
This image is built with Kameleon (just like other Grid'5000 environments). The recipe is available in the environments-recipes git repository.
If you need other system images for your work, please let us know.
-- Grid'5000 Team 14:00, April 27th 2020 (CEST)
Singularity containers in Grid'5000
We now offer a better support for Singularity containers Grid'5000. It is available in the standard environment and does not require to be root.
Just run the "singularity" command to use it. It can also be run in a OAR submission (none-interactive batch job), for instance:
oarsub -l core=1 "/grid5000/code/bin/singularity run library://sylabsed/examples/lolcow"
More information about the Singularity usage in Grid'5000 is available in the Singularity page.
Singularity is a popular container solution for HPC systems. It natively supports GPU and high performance network in containers and is compatible with docker images. More info at: https://sylabs.io/docs/
-- Grid'5000 Team 10:07, April 23nd 2020 (CET)
Important change in the User Management System - Groups which Grant Access to the testbed
An important update to the Grid'5000 User Management System just happened. This update brings a new concept: users now get granted access to the testbed through a group membership.
These Groups which Grant Access (GGAs) allow a dispatch of the management and reporting tasks for the usage of the platform to closer managers than the Grid’5000 site managers.
Every user has to be a member of a GGA to be allowed access to the platform. The memberships are currently being worked by the staff, the site managers and new GGA managers.
You may receive emails about moves regarding your account: Don't worry. The transition to GGA should not impact your use of the platform and experimentations.
As a reminder, if you encounter problems or have questions, please report them either on the users mailing list or to the support staff, as described in the Support page. More information about this change is available in the User Management Service documentation page.
-- Grid'5000 Team 11:07, April 22nd 2020 (CET)
Grid'5000 sites
Current funding
As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.
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