Reproducibility is widely considered to be an essential requirement of the scientific process.
However, a number of serious concerns have been raised recently, questioning whether …

Given the highly empirical nature of research in cloud computing, networked systems, and
related fields, testbeds play an important role in the research ecosystem. In this paper, we …

Almost ten years after its premises, the Grid'5000 testbed has become one of the most
complete testbed for designing or evaluating large-scale distributed systems. Initially …

Industrial wireless mesh networks are deployed in harsh and noisy environments for
process measurement and control applications. Compared with wireless community …

Support teams of high-performance computing (HPC) systems often find themselves
between a rock and a hard place: on one hand, they understandably administrate these …

In the context of experimental research, testbeds play an important role in enabling
reproducibility of experiments, by providing a set of services that help experiments with …

With a growing concern on the considerable energy consumed by HPC platforms and data
centers, research efforts are targeting green approaches with higher energy efficiency. In …

This paper introduces a Cloud orchestrator controller that enables the autoscaling of
containerized HPC Clusters in the Cloud. This controller triggers the creation or suppression …

Virtualization technology provides features that are desirable for high-performance
computing (HPC), such as enhanced reproducibility for scientific experiments and flexible …

In recent years, service-oriented systems are becoming increasingly complex, with growing
size and heterogeneity. Developing and deploying such large-scale systems present …