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Section: New Software and Platforms

Grid'5000 Experimental Platform

Participants : Laurent Lefèvre [correspondant] , Simon Delamare, David Loup, Christian Perez, Marc Pinhède, Laurent Pouilloux.

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.