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Grid'5000 (Grid'5000)
Identification
Hosting Legal Entity
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French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation
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Address:
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Domaine de Voluceau, Inria, Le Chesnay, PO: 78153 (France)
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Location
Domaine de Voluceau, Inria, Le Chesnay, PO: 78153 (France)
Structure
Type Of RI
Distributed
Coordinating Country
France
Status
Status
Current Status:
Operational
since 2005
Timeline
Under construction
since 2003
to 2005
Scientific Description
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. Grid'5000 runs an Open Access program to allow access for all academics. It is mainly funded by Inria, CNRS and RENATER.
RI Keywords
Internet, HPC, Computer Science, Reproducible Research, Distributed Systems, Big Data, Clouds
Classifications
RI Category
Complex Data Facilities
Software Service Facilities
Centralised Computing Facilities
Software Service Facilities
Centralised Computing Facilities
Scientific Domain
Information Science and Technology
Services
Access to
1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI.
Advanced monitoring and measurement features
for traces collection of networking and power consumption, providing a deep understanding of experiments.
Technical team support
for a a vibrant community of 500+ users.
Support to Open Science and reproducible research
includes full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed.
Highly reconfigurable and controllable software
researchers can experiment with a fully customized software stack thanks to bare-metal deployment features, and can isolate their experiment at the networking layer.
Equipment
10 datacenters
1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI.
Dedicated 10G backbone network
Date of last update: 13/01/2018
