16th IEEE International
Workshops on Enabling Technologies:
Infrastructures for Collaborative Enterprises
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Towards an International "Computer Science Grid”
Franck Cappello, http://www.lri.fr/~fci/
Abstract:
The Computer Science discipline, especially in large scale distributed systems like Grids and P2P systems and in high performance computing areas, tends to address issues related to increasingly complex systems, gathering thousands to millions of non trivial components. Theoretical analysis, simulation and even emulation are reaching their limits. Like in other scientific disciplines such as physics, chemistry and life sciences, there is a need to develop, run and maintain generations of scientific instruments for the observation of complex distributed systems running at real scale and under reproducible experimental conditions. Grid'5000 and DAS3 are two large scale systems designed as scientific instruments for researchers in the domains of Grid, P2P and networking. More than testbeds, Grid'5000 and DAS3 have been designed as "Computer Science Grids", where researchers share experimental resources spanning over large geographical distances, are able to reserve resources, configure them, run their experiments, realize precise measurements and replay the same experiments with the same experimental conditions. Computer scientists use these two platforms to address issues in the different software layers between the hardware and the users: networking protocols, OS, middleware, parallel application runtimes, applications. In this talk, we will present two Computer Science Grids: Grid'5000 and DAS3. We will describe the motivations, design and current status of these two systems. We will also present some of their key results, not only in terms of scientific results in computer science, but also the impact of these two systems as research tools. The success of Grid'5000 and DAS platforms is the basis of an international initiative, having the objective to deploy a European level "Computer Science Grid".
Bio of Franck Cappello:
Franck Cappello holds a Senior Researcher position at INRIA. He leads the Grand-Large project at INRIA, focusing on High Performance issues in Large Scale Distributed Systems. He has initiated the XtremWeb (Desktop Grid) and MPICH-V (Fault tolerant MPI) projects. He is currently the director of the Grid5000 project, a nation wide computer science platform for research in Grid and P2P. He has authored more than 60 papers in the domains of High Performance Programming, Desktop Grids, Grids and Fault tolerant MPI. He has contributed to more than 30 Program Committees. He is editorial board member of the international Journal on Grid Computing, Journal of Grid and Utility Computing and Journal of Cluster Computing. He is a steering committee member of IEEE HPDC and IEEE/ACM CCGRID. He is the General co-Chair of GPC'2007, Program co-Chair of EuroPVMMPI'2007 and HotP2P'2007 and was the General Chair of IEEE HPDC'2006.