Managing Large Scale Experiments in Distributed Testbeds

Performing experiments that involve a large amount of resources or a complex configuration, proves to be a hard task. We present Expo, which is a tool for conducting experiments on distributed platforms. First, the tool is described along with the concepts of resource and task sets, which abstracts away some of the complexity in the manage of resources and software execution. Next, the tool is compared with other similar solutions based on some qualitative criteria, scalability and expressiveness tests as well as the feedback coming from using dedicated testbeds. The report finishes with the evaluation of Expo scalability and some uses cases in Grid'5000 and PlanetLab. Our experience showed that Expo is a promising tool to help the user with two primary concerns: how to perform a large scale experiment efficiently and easily, together with its reproducilibity

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Source https://inria.hal.science/hal-00742582
Author Ruiz Sanabria, Cristian Camilo, Richard, Olivier, Videau, Brice, Oleg, Iegorov
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated October 30, 2026, 19:30 (UTC)
Created October 30, 2026, 19:30 (UTC)
Identifier Report N°: RR-8106
Language en
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contributor Middleware efficiently scalable (MESCAL) ; Centre Inria de l'Université Grenoble Alpes ; Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG) ; Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre Mendès France - Grenoble 2 (UPMF)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP)-Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble (INPG)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Ruiz Sanabria, Cristian Camilo
date 2012-10-16T00:00:00
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