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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 2143 overall):
- Jad Darrous. Scalable and Efficient Data Management in Distributed Clouds : Service Provisioning and Data Processing. Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.DC. Université de Lyon, 2019. English. NNT : 2019LYSEN077. tel-02508592 view on HAL pdf
- Guillaume Briffoteaux, Romain Ragonnet, Mohand Mezmaz, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens. Evolution Control for parallel ANN-assisted simulation-based optimization application to Tuberculosis Transmission Control. Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2020, 113, pp.454-467. 10.1016/j.future.2020.07.005. hal-02904840 view on HAL pdf
- Amir Teshome Wonjiga. User-centric security monitoring in cloud environments. Cryptography and Security cs.CR. Université Rennes 1, 2019. English. NNT : 2019REN1S080. tel-02570591 view on HAL pdf
- Giuseppe Di Lena, Andrea Tomassilli, Damien Saucez, Frédéric Giroire, Thierry Turletti, et al.. Demo Proposal - Distrinet: a Mininet implementation for the Cloud. CoNEXT 2019 - 15th International Conference on emerging Networking EXperiments and Technologies, Dec 2019, Orlando, FL, United States. hal-02359695 view on HAL pdf
- Lucas Nussbaum. SILECS/Grid’5000: le volet data-center de SILECS : Présentation et exemples d’expériences. TILECS - Towards an Infrastructure for Large-Scale Experimental Computer Science, Jul 2019, Grenoble, France. hal-02401836 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
Change in the Omnipath network of Grenoble's site: all nodes now connected to a single switch
The Intel Omnipath network of the Grenoble site was changed recently due to technical constraints :
It is now composed of only 1 Omnipath switch with all nodes connected to it (32 dahu + 4 yeti + 4 troll), while in the past the network was shared with the compute nodes of the HPC center of Université Grenoble Alpes, with the yeti and troll nodes connected to a different switch than the dahu nodes.
Please take that change into consideration in your experimentation.
More info: Grenoble:Network
-- Grid'5000 Team 15:00, March 3rd 2021 (CET)
Kwapi service is going to be stopped
Kwapi, the legacy service to provide energy consumption monitoring under Grid'5000, is going to be retired. It will be stopped in two weeks.
We encourage you to adopt its successor: Kwollect
https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Monitoring_Using_Kwollect
-- Grid'5000 Team 08:30, February 10th 2021 (CET)
IBM POWER8 cluster "drac" with P100 GPUs fully available in Grenoble
After a few months of testing, we are happy to announce that the new cluster "drac" is now available in the default queue in Grenoble.
The cluster has 12 "Minsky" nodes from IBM, more precisely "Power Systems S822LC for HPC".
Each node has 2x10 POWER8 CPU cores, 4 Tesla P100 GPU, and 128 GB of RAM. The GPUs are interconnected pair-wise with a NVLINK fabric that is also connected to the CPUs (unlike the DGX-1 gemini nodes for instance). The nodes are interconnected with a high-speed Infiniband network with 2x100 Gbit/s on each node.
Be aware that this cluster is using an exotic architecture, and as such it may be more difficult than usual to install software.
In particular, if you need to install to deep learning frameworks on these nodes, make sure to read our documentation:
Deep_Learning_Frameworks#Deep_learning_on_ppc64_nodes
In addition, when reserving the nodes, you need to explicitly ask for an "exotic" job type. For instance, to obtain a single node:
grenoble> oarsub -I -t exotic -p "cluster='drac'"
Acknowledgment: This cluster was donated by [GENCI https://www.genci.fr/en] (it was formerly known as the Ouessant platform of Genci's Cellule de Veille Technologique), many thanks to them.
More information on the hardware is available at Grenoble:Hardware#drac
-- Grid'5000 Team 17:30, February 9th 2021 (CET)
Troll and Gemini clusters are now exotic resources (change in the way to reserve them)
Clusters Troll on Grenoble and Gemini on Lyon are now considered exotic resources, and must be reserved using the exotic OAR job type.
When a cluster on Grid'5000 has a hardware specificity that makes it too different from a "standard" configuration, it is reservable only using the exotic OAR job type. There are 2 reasons for this:
- It ensures that your experiment won't run on potentially incompatible hardware, unless you explicitly allow it. (for example, you don't want to get a aarch64 cluster if your experiment is built for x86)
- By not allocating these resources to jobs by default, it makes them more easily available for users who are looking specifically for this kind of hardware.
There is an example of usage of the exotic job type in the getting started : https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Selecting_specific_resources
You can see if a cluster is exotic in the reference API or on the Hardware page of the wiki : https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Hardware#Clusters
There are currently 4 clusters which needs the exotic job type to be reserved :
- pyxis because it has a non-x86 CPU architecture (aarch64)
- drac because it has a non-x86 CPU architecture (ppc64)
- troll because it has PMEM ( https://www.grid5000.fr/w/PMEM )
- gemini because it has 8 V100 GPU per node, and only 2 nodes
-- Grid'5000 Team 09:40, January 26th 2021 (CET)
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Current funding
As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.
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