1. Grid Institute Scientific Council, September 10, 2008
09/10/2017
Research GRIDS
Veronique Donzeau-Gouge, Jean-Michel Muller
Grid Institute Scientific Council, September 10, 2008

2. Goals
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To strengthen the CNRS involvement in Grids research in relation with:
the CNRS department of Information and Engineering Sciences (ST2I)
INRIA and Universities
To reinforce the interactions between research in grid computing and production infrastructure
To be the CNRS representative for the national initiatives in Grid research
Two Communities which have to discuss
To be the contact with the french ministry of research

3. History
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2000 : the French Ministry of Research creates a research program « ACI GRID ».
Funding organizations:
INRIA, CNRS, French Ministry, universities and regional councils
3 year projects:
2000 – 2003 : Michel Cosnard
2004 – 2007: Thierry Priol
Results:
=> 30 funded projects
=> GRID5000: a national infrastructure for Grid research
=> a strong scientific community

4. GRID5K Grid5K is an experimental Grid platform, expecting 5000 nodes :
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Grid5K is an experimental Grid platform, expecting 5000 nodes :
Highly reconfigurable, controlable, monitorable
Dedicated to research on grid technologies.
A booking system allows to reserve some nodes to run experiments.
It is possible to install and to deploy a complete software package from the OS up to the applications on all the nodes

5. GRID5K An experimental testbed for research in grid computing
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An experimental testbed for research in grid computing
Experimental conditions injector
Application
Measurement tools
Programming Environment
Application Runtime
Grid or P2P Middleware
Operating System
Networking
Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France
wide in all these software layers

6. Grid5K Gathering 9 French sites:
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Gathering 9 French sites:
- Paris Rennes Bordeaux Toulouse Nice Grenoble Lyon Nancy Lille
which are currently hosting 4790 Grid5000 nodes
10 labs
11 teams
Sites are connected together on a 10 Gb/s backbone

7. CNRS joint labs- INRIA teams
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Nancy ALGORILLE / LORIA : Algorithms for the Grid - Jens Gustedt
Lille DOLPHIN / LIFL: Parallel Cooperative Multi-criteria Optimization - El-Ghazali TALBI
Lyon GRAAL / LIP: Algorithms and Scheduling for Distributed Heterogeneous Platforms - Frédéric Vivien
Saclay GRAND-LARGE / LRI : Global parallel and distributed computing - Franck Cappello
Toulouse APO / IRIT: Parallel algorithms and optimization - Patrick R. Amestoy
Bordeaux CEPAGE / LABRI : Algorithms for large-scale platforms - Olivier Beaumont

8. CNRS Joint labs – INRIA teams
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Paris REGAL / LIP6: Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Applications  - Pierre Sens
Lyon RESO / LIP: Optimized protocols and software for high performance networks - Pascale Vicat-Blanc
Sophia OASIS / I3S: Active Objects, Internet and Security, Middleware and graphic tools - Denis Caromel
Rennes PARIS / IRISA: Programming parallel and distributed systems for large scale numerical simulation applications - Thierry Priol
Grenoble MESCAL / LIG: Middleware Efficiently SCALable - Bruno Gaujal

9. CNRS involvement: 2008
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Via human resources coming from the ST2I department
3 new tenured research positions focused on the themes of grid computing : (IRIT , LIP, IRISA)
2 engineers (IRIT, LIG)
2 PhD grants (LABRI, LIFL)
And labs support
Via international projects:
4 CNRS- JST (Japan) (3 years, 180 Keuros by project) : LORIA, LIFL, IRIT, LRI
A network connection has recently been established between Grid5000 and the Japanese Grid NAREGI

10. CNRS involvement : next year
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We expect :
To maintain the number of new tenured research positions which are dedicated to grid computing
To increase the number of engineers (temporary positions ?)
To create an international laboratory (LIA) CNRS-KEIO-TOKYO universities around networks and grid computing.
( continuation of previous JST projects)

11. National infrastructure
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2008 : French research Ministry aims at building a large national infrastructure based on GRID5K. (GRID5K to be durable)
Organizations involved :
INRIA, CNRS (IDGrid), Telecommunication Institute, RENATER
Steering committee : {president of each organization}
Scientific committee
Management committee : {researchers involved in the teams}
With an INRIA presidency
Ongoing discussions
Aim : an organization which will be “symetric” to the one discussed for grids production

12. Research grids specificities
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Production grid : Platform which must provide services in a continuous and safe way.
Research grid :
Platform for allowing
experiments on all its components (network, middleware, applicative software, applications...).
Therefore, the platform can’t be continuous neither reliable.
research in different fields in computer sciences : operating systems, parallel computation, high performance networks, distributed data basis, security…
Developments and validations of prototypes before using on a production grid

13. Research grids – production grids
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A joint effort between Research Grids and Production Grids is crucial
Research Grids will develop the future software for the production grids
Production Grids will provide the framework to test new developments
Needs to reinforce or even to establish links between grids research and production communities

14. Research grids- production grids
09/10/2017
This year :
Setting up a working group on the use of grids in engineering sciences (managed by Cecile Germain )
Rising main interests
To make a production grid self maintenable, extensible
To specify a process for moving software ( from research to production)
To suggest and to design metrics, realistic simulations from models and observatories.

15. How to increase this collaboration ?
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Next year :
How to increase this collaboration ?
Via working groups, training, scientific events, recruitment of engineers coming from the “grid research family” ?
On which topics?
The previous ones ?
Others topics ?

16. To Conclude The creation of the CNRS Grid Institute
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The creation of the CNRS Grid Institute
Makes visible the contributions provided by the CNRS in the research in grid computing
Sets up the CNRS as a representative of the national authorities in this scientific field
The Grid Institute is the only French national organization gathering the research and production grid communities.
It must be the natural catalyst for exchanges between the two communities : This is our priority for next year