1. A Nation Wide Experimental Grid The Grid’5000 project: architecture and objectives Building a nation wide experimental platform for Grid researchers – 10/11 geographically distributed sites – Every site hosts a cluster of PCs (from 256 CPUs to 1K CPUs) – All sites are connected by RENATER (French academic network) – RENATER hosts probes to trace network condition load – Design and develop a system/middleware environment for safely test and repeat experiments Use the platform for Grid experiments – Address critical issues of Grid system/middleware Programming, scalability, fault tolerance, scheduling – Address critical issues of Grid networking High performance transport protocols, QoS – Gridify and test real life applications – Investigate original mechanisms P2P resources discovery, desktop Grids The Grid’5000 project: architecture and objectives Building a nation wide experimental platform for Grid researchers – 10/11 geographically distributed sites – Every site hosts a cluster of PCs (from 256 CPUs to 1K CPUs) – All sites are connected by RENATER (French academic network) – RENATER hosts probes to trace network condition load – Design and develop a system/middleware environment for safely test and repeat experiments Use the platform for Grid experiments – Address critical issues of Grid system/middleware Programming, scalability, fault tolerance, scheduling – Address critical issues of Grid networking High performance transport protocols, QoS – Gridify and test real life applications – Investigate original mechanisms P2P resources discovery, desktop Grids The Grid’5000 Steering Committee Organizer: Franck Cappello (LRI, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud) Director of the ACI GRID : Thierry Priol (IRISA, Rennes) President of the ACI GRID SC : Brigitte Plateau (IMAG, Grenoble) Director of RENATER : Dany Vandrome Sites scientific coordinators Frédéric Desprez (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) Michel Daydé (ENSEEIHT-IRIT Toulouse) Yvon Jégou (IRISA, Rennes) Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis) Raymond Namyst (LaBRI, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux 1) Pascale Primet (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) Olivier Richard (IMAG, Grenoble) The Grid’5000 Steering Committee Organizer: Franck Cappello (LRI, CNRS-Universite Paris-Sud) Director of the ACI GRID : Thierry Priol (IRISA, Rennes) President of the ACI GRID SC : Brigitte Plateau (IMAG, Grenoble) Director of RENATER : Dany Vandrome Sites scientific coordinators Frédéric Desprez (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) Michel Daydé (ENSEEIHT-IRIT Toulouse) Yvon Jégou (IRISA, Rennes) Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis) Raymond Namyst (LaBRI, CNRS-Université de Bordeaux 1) Pascale Primet (INRIA Rhône-Alpes) Olivier Richard (IMAG, Grenoble)

2. Grid’5000 nodes (September 2004) Grid’5000 status Total funding : 3 M€ (as of September 2004) Sponsors : MRNT – ACI Grid’5000 – ACI MD projects INRIA Regional councils Grid’5000 experimental activities: an overview Networking – End host communication layer – High performance long distance protocols – High speed network emulation – Grid networking layer Middleware/OS – Grid’5000 platform control, access and experiment automation – Grid scheduling and data distribution – Fault tolerance Grid issues – Resource management – Computational steering – Grid SSI OS and Grid I/O – Desktop Grid and P2P systems Programming – Component models for the Grid (Java, Corba) – Grid-RPC and Grid-MPI – Code coupling (multi-physics, interactive scientific visualization) Applications – Multi-parametric applications (climate modeling, functional genomic) – Distributed scientific computing applications - Large-scale, parallel/distributed, numerical simulations – Computational steering and interactive scientific visualization -Medical imaging analysis Grid’5000 experimental activities: an overview Networking – End host communication layer – High performance long distance protocols – High speed network emulation – Grid networking layer Middleware/OS – Grid’5000 platform control, access and experiment automation – Grid scheduling and data distribution – Fault tolerance Grid issues – Resource management – Computational steering – Grid SSI OS and Grid I/O – Desktop Grid and P2P systems Programming – Component models for the Grid (Java, Corba) – Grid-RPC and Grid-MPI – Code coupling (multi-physics, interactive scientific visualization) Applications – Multi-parametric applications (climate modeling, functional genomic) – Distributed scientific computing applications - Large-scale, parallel/distributed, numerical simulations – Computational steering and interactive scientific visualization -Medical imaging analysis Contact Franck.Cappello@lri.fr Contact Franck.Cappello@lri.fr Web site www.grid5000.org Web site www.grid5000.org