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Administrative Information
Name of the testbed:	Grid'5000
Name of the principal organisation operates the Testbed:	INRIA
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Address of principal office of the testbed:	Grid'5000/ALADDIN-G5K INRIA Campus de Beaulieu 35042 Rennes Cedex
Name of administrative contact person:	David Margery
	Tel (administrative):+33 2 99 84 25 12
	E-mail (administrative):David.Margery@inria.fr
Name of technical contact person:	David Margery
	Tel (technical):+33 2 99 84 25 12
	E-mail (technical):David.Margery@inria.fr
Permanent employees:	yes
Number of employees:	5
Name of the principal organisation that operates the testbed:	INRIA
Type of organisation:	Academic institute
Principal area of activity:	Research
Principal sector of activity:	Information technology

Technical Information
Brief description of the testbed:
Grid'5000 is a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 processors. Althought, its design targets experiments in the area of Grids, its high degree of reconfigurability makes it suitable to carry out experiments in the area of service infrastructures, cloud computing and the Internet of Servers.
Classification:	Generic distributed system testbed
Components:	Up to 1483 machines in 9 sites on which the experimenter can have root access.
Access networks:	Ethernet
Remote secure access:	SSH
Application keywords:	Distributed applications, Grid middleware, virtualization, distributed, operating systems, Cloud systems
Testing keywords:	Conformance,Functionality,Interoperability,Performance,Benchmarking,Measurement
Testing resources:	Please refer to https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Special:G5KHardware for the different kind of hardware accessible.
Main standards:	N/A

Operational information
Description of the services offered:
A Grid'5000 user can allocate a slice of the whole infrastructure to carry out his experiments. He can deploy software stacks (from the OS till the application layers) using a remote reboot of the resources (no virtualization yet). Guidelines to use the testbed allow users to carry out experiment at large scale with several thousands of processors from different sites. Allocation and deployment are performed by several tools provided to the users. Several other tools are given to monitor the testbed during the experiment as well as injecting failures.
Planned evolution of the technologies used and services offered:
Support for virtualization will be added to set up experiments but physical reboot will remain to ensure a strict isolation of the experiments and experiments on Support for better monitoring and control of the dedicated network layer is in the works.
Objectives of the testbed:
Allow users to make progress towards the design of scalable and autonomic distributed systems. Thanks to financial support from INRIA, CNRS and Universities as well as regional councils, the sustainability of the testbed is ensured till 2011.
Governance model:
The testbed is governed by a General Director, a Technical Director, a Scientific Director and a Deputy Scientific Director. An executive committee gather representatives from all geographical locations that provide resources to the testbed as well as representative of the network provider (RENATER).
Target market:
Computer science mainly but open to the industry in the framework of a formal collaboration between an institution involved in the management of the testbed and a private or public company.
Unique offering:
There is no other testbed at this large scale and with a high degree of reconfigurabilty that can provide the service offered by Grid'5000.
Funding model:	Public funding
Access policies to the testbed:	Restricted access
Other access policy:	Access can be granted in the framework of a project in which an institution involved in the management of the testbed is a partner.
Intellectual property handling:	Users will keep their IPR
Repository of test results:	yes
Access to repository of test results:	Public
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