Section: New Software and Platforms

Grid'5000

Grid'5000 experimental platform

Keywords: HPC - Cloud - Big data - Testbeds

Functional Description: The Grid'5000 experimental platform is a scientific instrument to support computer science research related to distributed systems, including parallel processing, high performance computing, cloud computing, operating systems, peer-to-peer systems and networks. It is distributed on 10 sites in France and Luxembourg, including Lyon. Grid'5000 is a unique platform as it offers to researchers many and varied hardware resources and a complete software stack to conduct complex experiments, ensure reproducibility and ease understanding of results.

News Of The Year: This year's highlights include the first joint FIT-Grid'5000 school, and various improvements (update to Debian 9, several new clusters, etc.). More information on https://www.grid5000.fr/w/News

• Participants: Christian Pérez, David Loup, Frédéric Desprez, Laurent Lefèvre, Laurent Pouilloux, Marc Pinhède, Simon Delamare, Lucas Nussbaum, Teddy Valette and Alexandre Merlin

• Contact: Frédéric Desprez

• URL: https://www.grid5000.fr/