Section: New Software and Platforms

Platforms

Grid'5000  (https://www.grid5000.fr/ ) is a French nation-wide computational grid infrastructure composed of several clusters of processors distributed over 11 sites including Lille. Since 2004, the Dolphin team is the scientific leader of the Grid'5000 site located at Lille. The role of the team is mainly threefold consisting in ensuring (1) the maintenance and evolution of the platform, (2) the local and national coordination of the related activities, and (3) the scientific animation around Grid'5000. Regarding the evolution of the infrastructure, this later has been extended in 2014 with a new powerful storage server hosting mainly the NFS system. In addition, the team has contributed to the 5-year CPER project called “data" proposed by the Inria Lille research center. The project includes a part related to the Grid'5000 platform. From the coordination point of view, Dolphin has participated to the monthly meetings of the national Grid'5000 committee. Finally, regarding the scientific animation, first, Dolphin has organized in December 20^th, 2014, a training  (http://www.lifl.fr/~melab/HTML/Journee-G5K-Lille.htm ) around Grid'5000. Second, Dolphin has participated to the program committee of the Grid'5000 spring school  (https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Grid5000:School2014 ) held in Lyon in June 2014. Third, the team has also been involved in the final evaluation of the scientific nation-wide Hemera research project  (https://www.grid5000.fr/Hemera ) related to Grid'5000.