Grid eXplorer (GdX)
Large Scale Instrument for exploring Grid/P2P system/network/storage/computing scientific issues
 
An introduction  (ppt slides)

GdX  in "Enabling Grid 5000" proposal
News: "Enabling Grid 5000" Accepted

News (10/22/2004):
Grid explorer installation

Grid Explorer in the press
ACI "Masse de Donees":
Data Grid Explorer proposal .pdf
Data Grid Explrer proposal .rtf
Project Members .doc
News: "Data Grid Explorer" Accepted

SESAM "Ile de France":
Grid Explorer proposal .doc
 

 

Research Topics:

Infrastructure
(system)

Emulator
(Grid, P2P, net.)

Network
(protocols, metrics)

Experiments: DHT
Storage
Data base
Protocols
Genomics
Security
Fault tolerance
Celular Automata
 

 
Analogy with Large Scale Physics Instrument:
The right-side image shows the Cosmotron of the Brookhaven Lab. (first accelerator to reach 1 Gev)
Grid Explorer will gather 3 components: a 1k nodes PC Cluster, an Experimental Condition Data Base and a tool set  (emulators, simulators).  Grid Explorer would have approximatively the same foot print as the Cosmotron, if arranged in the same shape. One can imagine experimental condition data bases located at the center of the instrument and the experiment specific units (high speed networks, large storage units, routers, etc.) attached at its perimeter. 

 
 

Coodination:
LRI
ID-Imag
LIP6
 

Labs. in 
ACI "Masse de donnes" proposal:
CEA
ID-IMAG
INRIA Sophia
IBCP
IRISA
LAAS
LABRI
LARIA
LIFL
LIP
LIP6
LORIA
LRI