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Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.

Grid'5000

Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing, including Cloud, HPC, Big Data and AI.

Key features:

provides access to a large amount of resources: 15000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: PMEM, GPU, SSD, NVMe, 10G and 25G Ethernet, Infiniband, Omni-Path
highly reconfigurable and controllable: researchers can experiment with a fully customized software stack thanks to bare-metal deployment features, and can isolate their experiment at the networking layer
advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption, providing a deep understanding of experiments
designed to support Open Science and reproducible research, with full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed
a vibrant community of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team

Read more about our teams, our publications, and the usage policy of the testbed. Then get an account, and learn how to use the testbed with our Getting Started tutorial and the rest of our Users portal.

Published documents and presentations:

Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019)
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)

Older documents:

Grid'5000 is supported by a scientific interest group (GIS) hosted by Inria and including CNRS, RENATER and several Universities as well as other organizations. Inria has been supporting Grid'5000 through ADT ALADDIN-G5K (2007-2013), ADT LAPLACE (2014-2016), and IPL HEMERA (2010-2014).

Current status (at 2026-05-06 12:39): 6 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2943 overall):

Lluis Prior Sancho, Tommaso Belvedere, Marco Tognon. From Pixels to Touch: Direct Tactile Servoing with Learned Photometric Normalization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, In press, 10.1109/LRA.2026.3685944. hal-05599932 view on HAL pdf
Wèdan Emmanuel Gnibga. Modeling and optimization of Edge infrastructures and their electrical systems. Databases cs.DB. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS069. tel-04967447 view on HAL pdf
Celia Mahamdi, Jonathan Lejeune, Julien Sopena, Pierre Sens, Mesaac Makpangou. OMAHA: Opportunistic Message Aggregation for pHase-based Algorithms (extended version). Formal Aspects of Computing, 2024, 36, pp.1 - 23. 10.1145/3698593. hal-05003849 view on HAL pdf
Thomas Stavis, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Intel RAPL - Ses impacts sur l’infrastructure et son utilisation comme levier énergétique. 2026. hal-05548910 view on HAL pdf
Gaspard Michel, Elena Epure, Romain Hennequin, Christophe Cerisara. Evaluating LLMs for Quotation Attribution in Literary Texts: A Case Study of LLaMa3. 2025 Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Apr 2025, Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States. pp.742-755, 10.18653/v1/2025.naacl-short.62. hal-05245297 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

Cluster Sasquatch is now in default queue at Grenoble

We are pleased to announce that the Sasquatch [1] cluster is now available in the default queue.

Sasquatch is a cluster composed of 2 HPE RL300 nodes, each featuring:

1x ARM64 CPU Neoverse-N1 (Ares) 80 cores/CPU (Ampere altra) [2]

1 TiB RAM

1x 1.6 TB NVMe

2x 25Gbps network interface (first NIC wired at 25Gbps and second NIC at 10Gbps)

This cluster was funded by the PEPR IA.

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Grenoble:Hardware#sasquatch

[2] https://amperecomputing.com/briefs/ampere-altra-family-product-brief

Best regards, Grid'5000 Technical Team

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:15, 11 February 2026 (CEST)

Cluster Spirou is now in default queue at Louvain

We are pleased to announce that the Spirou[1] cluster of the newly installed Louvain site is now available in the default queue.

Spirou is a cluster composed of 8 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V2 nodes, each featuring:

2x CPU Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y (Ice Lake-SP)24 cores/CPU

256 GiB RAM

1x 4.0 TB HDD SATA Lenovo

2x 100Gbps Mellanox network interface

Be aware that we noticed I/Os inconsistencies on this cluster.

We advise users to take this into account when performing experimentations on the cluster. See the following bug for more information: https://intranet.grid5000.fr/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16938

This cluster was funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (F.R.S.–FNRS), and its operation is supported by F.R.S.–FNRS and the Wallonia region (SPW).

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Louvain:Hardware#spirou

Best regards,

Grid'5000 Technical Team

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:24, 12 January 2026 (CEST)

End of support for centOS7/8 and centOSStream8 environments

Support for the centOS7/8 and centOSStream8 kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

The last version of the centOS7 environments (version 2024071117), centOS8 environments (version 2024071119), centOSStream8 environments (version 2024070316) will remain available on /grid5000. Older versions can still be accessed in the archive directory (see /grid5000/README.unmaintained-envs for more information).

-- Grid'5000 Team 08:44, 4 December 2025 (CEST)

Ecotaxe cluster is now in default queue at Nantes

We are pleased to announce that the ecotaxe cluster of Nantes is now available in the default queue.

As a reminder, ecotaxe is a cluster composed of 2 HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus v2 servers[1].

Each node features:

2 AMD EPYC 7453 (Zen 3), 28 cores/CPU

3 Nvidia A100 80GB GPU

256 GB memory

1x 1.92 To SSD + 2x 7.68 To SSD

100 Gb/s Intel Ethernet adapter [2].

To submit a job on this cluster, the following command may be used:

oarsub -t exotic -p ecotaxe

This cluster is co-funded by Région Pays de la Loire, FEDER and REACT EU via the CPER SAMURAI [3].

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Nantes:Hardware#ecotaxe

[2] The observed throughput depends on multiple parameters such as the workload, the number of streams, ... [3] https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/fr/recherche-innovation/collaborer/projet/samurai

-- Grid'5000 Team 14:10, 02 December 2025 (CET)

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

IMT Atlantique
Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP
Université Rennes 1, Rennes
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux
Université Lille 1, Lille
École Normale Supérieure, Lyon

Regional councils

Aquitaine
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Hauts de France
Lorraine