Grid5000:Timeline
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Project planning
Roadmap
- December 2005: Assessment on the first 9 months usage
- Report to Funding Institutions Scientific Committees (Michel Bidoit, Brigitte Plateau, Thierry Priol & 1 ACI Grid member)
- Brainstorming on how to budgetize at least 500 CPUs at each of the 9 sites (1000 for Orsay) to achieve the 5000 CPUs goal (some sites are already secured)
- Brainstorming on how to budgetize 10 Gbps interfaces for RENATER (20 k$)
- March 2006: Organize a Grid'5000 school where users can familiarize with scheduling/deploying tools
- Opening to ACI Masse de Données & ACI Sécurité communities for the Spring School (reach stability)
- Mid 2006: Opening to external communities and possibly "best effort" after first users reports
What has been done so far
Financial Supports
- "ACI Grid" with 2 calls for Grid'5000
- "ACI Masse de Données" with GriD eXplorer
- Local fundings (regions + departments)
- INRIA fundings
- 2 "AS CNRS" (Grid5000 and Grid Programming)
Management and Internal Communication
- 1 Steering Committee + 1 Technical Committee
- Frequent audioconferences for each committee
- Wiki online interactive workspace
- Regular meetings with RENATER
- Public web site
- 1 Mailing list for each committee
- [...]
- June 2005: Assessment on the first 3 months of community usage
- November 2005: Wiki and public web site merged on a single portal
Technical Achievements
- Prototype:
- Grid prototype: 775 machines deployed over 9 sites
- Security prototype: operational VPN (VTUN)
- Control prototype: OAR
- Monitoring prototype: Nagios
- [...]
- Real size instrument:
- Grid achievement: 1041 machines (2082 CPUs) deployed over 9 sites
- Security achievement: dedicated VLAN (RENATER)
- Control achievement: OAR + KaTools
- Monitoring achievement: Monika, OARGantt, Ganglia, Nagios
- March 2005: Automated WinXP launch (delay measurment)
- March 2005: Real size demos (> 1000 CPU)
Partnerships
- 3 calls opened (CCTP written and approved by the Steering Committee)
- information exchange (Benchmarks, Costs, CPU availability, etc.)
- March 2005: 1Gb/s dedicated line between all Grid'5000 sites (RENATER)
- operational RENATER link for Grenoble
- RENATER probes available for Sophia, Grenoble, Rennes, Orsay, Toulouse (and soon Lyon)
Discussions and Brainstormings
- Operating modes: local clusters vs. Grid'5000
- User modes: shared, interactive, batch
- Demos: reboot, network, middleware, applications (call for permanent demos)
- Experiments census (and call for new proposals)
Deadlines
- October 2004: Progressive prototype deployment following a roadmap
- November 2004: Partial scheduling ready for SC'04 demos
- December 2004: Switch to real equipment
- January 2005: Opening to the full Grid'5000 community
- March 2005: Opening to ACI Grid community as soon as possible
- October 2005: Opening to 2nd Plugtest and prepare for SC'05 & PaRI-STIC
- March 2005: Preparing the platform and tutorials for Grid'5000 winter school
- October 2006: Preparing for SC'06, PaRI-STIC & 3rd Plugtest
External Communication
Please have a look at:
- The news section
- The publications section
- The press releases section