Future Generation Computer Systems - Special issue on metacomputing
Netbed: an integrated experimental environment
ACM SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review
ZENTURIO: An Experiment Management System for Cluster and Grid Computing
CLUSTER '02 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
PlanetLab application management using plush
ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review
A batch scheduler with high level components
CCGRID '05 Proceedings of the Fifth IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'05) - Volume 2 - Volume 02
Operating system support for planetary-scale network services
NSDI'04 Proceedings of the 1st conference on Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation - Volume 1
Grid'5000: A Large Scale and Highly Reconfigurable Grid Experimental Testbed
GRID '05 Proceedings of the 6th IEEE/ACM International Workshop on Grid Computing
A tool for environment deployment in clusters and light grids
IPDPS'06 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Parallel and distributed processing
DART: distributed automated regression testing for large-scale network applications
OPODIS'04 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Principles of Distributed Systems
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This paper presents a case study conducted on the Grid'5000 platform, a lightweight grid. The goal was to make a rather simple experiment, and study how difficult it was to carry out correctly. This means it had to be correct, reproducible and efficient. The paper shows that despite the precautions taken, many parameters that could have an effect on the result were at first overlooked. It also shows that benchmarking plays a key role on making an experiment correct and reproducible. The process is in the end extremely tedious, and stresses the need for new tools to help users. The contribution of this work is to present a methodology to get correct results on grid architecture, to identify relevant problems and to propose an infrastructure that answers part of the problems encountered during experiments. Additionally, pieces of this infrastructure have been built and are also presented.