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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 and IA. 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 2034 overall):
- Chaopeng Guo, Jean-Marc Pierson, Liu Hui, Jie Song. Frequency Selection Approach for Energy Aware Cloud Database. IEEE access, 2018, 7 (1), pp.1927-1942. 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2885765. hal-02092942 view on HAL pdf
- Nouredine Melab, Jan Gmys, Mohand Mezmaz, Daniel Tuyttens. Many-core Branch-and-Bound for GPU accelerators and MIC coprocessors. T. Bartz-Beielstein; B. Filipic; P. Korosec; E-G. Talbi. High-Performance Simulation-Based Optimization, 833, Springer, pp.16, 2019, Studies in Computational Intelligence, ISBN 978-3-030-18763-7. hal-01924766 view on HAL pdf
- Hélène Coullon, Julien Bigot, Christian Pérez. Extensibility and Composability of a Multi-Stencil Domain Specific Framework. International Journal of Parallel Programming, Springer Verlag, 2017, 10.1007/s10766-017-0539-5. hal-01650998 view on HAL pdf
- Abdulqawi Saif, Lucas Nussbaum, Ye-Qiong Song. IOscope: A Flexible I/O Tracer for Workloads' I/O Pattern Characterization. ISC High Performance 2018 International Workshops - WOPSSS'18, Jun 2018, Frankfurt, Germany. hal-01828249 view on HAL pdf
- Michael Mercier, David Glesser, Yiannis Georgiou, Olivier Richard. Big Data and HPC collocation: Using HPC idle resources for Big Data Analytics. IEEE BigData 2017, Dec 2017, Boston, United States. hal-01633507 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
Default environments and frontends to be updated to Debian 10 "Buster"
Dear users,
We are planning to upgrade nodes default environement (the "-std" variant, provided when deployment is not used) to Debian 10 "Buster". Switchover is scheduled on September, 26th.
In addition, frontends will also be upgraded on October 3rd (It has already been upgraded on Luxembourg site).
Remind that this update may need you to modify your scripts (of course you will still be able to deploy Debian 9 environments).
Regards,
-- Grid'5000 Team 12:00, 20 September 2019 (CET)
Debian 10 "buster" environments are now available for deployments
Kadeploy images (from min to big) are now available for Debian 10.
New features and changes in Debian 10 are described in: https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-whats-new.en.html
In particular, it includes many software updates:
- openjdk 11.0.4
- Python 3.7.3
- python-numpy 1.16.2
- python-scipy 1.2.2
- python-pandas 0.23.3
- OpenMPI 3.1.3
- GCC 7.4 and 8.3
- G++ 8.3.0
- Libboost 1.67.0.2
- Ruby 2.5.1
- Cuda 10.1.168 (418.67)
- CMake 3.13.4
- GFortran 8.3.0
- Liblapack 3.8.0
- libatlas 0.6.4
- RDMA 24.0
Known regressions and problems are :
- The std environment is not available yet
- Predicitible network interfaces names changed on chifflot and graffiti (see https://intranet.grid5000.fr/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9877)
- Infiniband network support is not operational at the moment
Let us know if you want us to support some tools, software,... that are not available on big and std.
As a reminder, this is the way you can use an alternate environment (https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Getting_Started#Deploying_nodes_with_Kadeploy) :
$ oarsub -t deploy -I $ kadeploy -e debian10-x64-big -f $OAR_NODE_FILE -k
Please report any problem you encounter with the above environments to support-staff@lists.grid5000.fr.
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New cluster available in Nancy: graffiti (52 GPUs)
We have the pleasure to announce that the Graffiti cluster in Nancy (production queue) is now fully operational:
It features 13 Dell T640 servers nodes with 2 Intel Silver 4110 (8 cores / 16 threads), 128 GB DDR4, 1x480 GB SSD, 10Gbps Ethernet, and 4 GPU NVidia RTX2080 Ti per node.
As this cluster features 4 GPU per node, we remind you that you can monitor GPU (and node) usage using the Ganglia tool (std environment only):
- follow https://intranet.grid5000.fr/ganglia/?r=2hr&cs=&ce=&m=load_one&s=by+name&c=Nancy&tab=m&vn=&hide-hf=false
- then choose a node (eg. graffiti-3)
You can also use the nvidia-smi and htop commands on your reserved nodes to get more information about your GPU/CPU usage.
If your experiments do not require all the GPU of a single node, it is possible to reserve GPU at the resource level (see https://grid5000.fr/w/News#Enabling_GPU_level_resource_reservation_in_OAR for some examples).
Finally, if you know how to use GPUs at their max with widely used software (Tensorflow, NAMD, ...) and would like to share your knowledge about this, we will be happy to transform your knowledge into Grid5000 tutorials.
This cluster has been funded by Ihe CPER LCHN project (Langues, Connaissances & Humanités Numériques, Contrat de plan État / Région Lorraine 2015-2020), and the LARSEN and MULTISPEECH teams at LORIA / Inria Nancy Grand Est.
Special thanks go to:
- Marc Vesin (Inria Sophia) and Marianne Lombard (Inria Saclay) for their contributions and sharing of experiences on the café cluster mailing list which have...
A new version of tgz-g5k has been released
We have released a new version of tgz-g5k. Tgz-g5k is a a tool that allow you to extract a Grid'5000 environment tarball from a running node. The tarball can therefore be used by kadeploy to re-deploy the image on different nodes/reservations (see Advanced Kadeploy for more details)
The new version has two major improvements:
- tgz-g5k is now compatible with Ubuntu and Centos
- tgz-g5k is directly usable on frontends (you do not need to use it through ssh anymore).
To use tgz-g5k from a frontend, you can execute the following command:
frontend$ tgz-g5k -m MY_NODE -f ~/MY_TARBALL.tgz
In case of specific or non-deployed environments: - tgz-g5k can use a specific user id to access nodes, by using the parameter -u (by default tgz-g5k accesses nodes as root) - tgz-g5k can access node with oarsh/oarcp instead of ssh/scp, by using the parameter -o (by default tgz-g5k uses ssh/scp)
Note that tg5-g5k is still compatible with the previous command line. For the record, you had to use previously the following command:
frontend$ ssh root@MY_NODE tgz-g5k > ~/MY_TARBALL.tgz
-- Grid'5000 Team 15:00, 07 August 2019 (CET)
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