Grid'5000: A Large Scale And Highly Reconfigurable Experimental Grid Testbed

By Raphael Bolze, Franck Cappello, E. Caron, M. Daydé, Frederic Desprez, E. Jeannot, Y. Jégou, Stéphane Lanteri, J. Leduc, N. Melab and 7 more. The international journal of high performance computing applications, 2006

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Large scale distributed systems such as Grids are difficult to study from theoretical models and simulators only. Most Grids deployed at large scale are production platforms that are inappropriate research tools because of their limited reconfiguration, control and monitoring capabilities. In this paper, we present Grid'5000, a 5000 CPU nation-wide infrastructure for research in Grid computing. Grid'5000 is designed to provide a scientific tool for computer scientists similar to the large-scale instruments used by physicists, astronomers, and biologists. We describe the motivations, design considerations, architecture, control, and monitoring infrastructure of this experimental platform. We present configuration examples and performance results for the reconfiguration subsystem.

Subfields: Computer Networks and Communications, Hardware and Architecture

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Citations in the corpus

The Grid Workloads Archive (2008, methodology): “In addition, the Grid5000 traces include experimental applications for parallel and distributed systems research.”
Versatile, scalable, and accurate simulation of distributed applications and platforms (2014, neutral): “For instance, it allows us to represent the full Grid’5000 platform [12] (10 sites, 40 clusters, 1500 nodes) with only 61 KiB.”
Entropy: a consolidation manager for clusters (2009, methodology): “Experiments presented in this paper were carried out using the Grid’5000 experimental testbed [4], an initiative from the French Ministry of Research through the ACI GRID incentive action, INRIA, CNRS and RENATER and other contributing partners.”
DAGuE: A Generic Distributed DAG Engine for High Performance Computing (2011, methodology): “The Griffon cluster is one of the clusters of the Grid’5000 experimental grid [17].”
SimGrid: A Generic Framework for Large-Scale Distributed Experiments (2008, background): “Grid’5000 [4] direct direct direct direct access fixed < 5000”