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 Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-FR, the French node of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
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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:
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Random pick of publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2954 overall):
- Dorian Goepp, Samuel Brun, Quentin Guilloteau, Olivier Richard. Un prototype de cache de métadonnées pour le passage à l'échelle de NixOS-Compose. COMPAS 2024 - Conférence francophone d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système, Jul 2024, Nantes, France. pp.1-8. hal-04632952 view on HAL pdf
- François Lemaire, Louis Roussel. Deep Learning for Integro-Differential Modelling. RISC Proceedings on Symbolic Computation and Machine Learning, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 2026, Mar 2026, Hagenberg Castle, Austria. 10.35011/risc-proceedings-scml.2. hal-05230281v3 view on HAL pdf
- François Portier, Lionel Truquet, Ikko Yamane. Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Covariate Shift Adaptation. 2024. hal-04645530 view on HAL pdf
- Romain Pereira, Thierry Gautier, Adrien Roussel, Patrick Carribault. Measuring and Interpreting Dependent Task-based Applications Performances. 15th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics - PPAM 2024, Sep 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic. pp.227-241. hal-04767262 view on HAL pdf
- Danilo Carastan-Santos, Georges da Costa, Igor Fontana de Nardin, Millian Poquet, Krzysztof Rzadca, et al.. Scheduling with lightweight predictions in power-constrained HPC platforms. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025, pp.1-12. 10.1109/TPDS.2025.3586723. hal-04747713v3 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
Hello everyone,
Let's start with a quick TLDR, details on the rationale and implementation are available below: new modules will be available with the new standard environment, and are already live for testing (but not activated by default).
If you want to test them you need to run the following commands:
unset MODULEPATH
module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest /grid5000/spack/module-others
Now for more details: for the past months we have been working on updating the standard environment and the way we provide modules.
The current way uses Spack under the hood, and is tightly bound to the underlying operating system.
It's been proven to be quite a burden for the team, and therefore we are changing the way we manage modules to:
- use a solution oblivious to the Linux flavor; - have means to update software versions automatically, and a clear release cycle; - actually have something reproducible; - be able to automatically test our most sensitive modules when they change (on both OAR and SLURM clusters).
Under the hood we switched to Guix to manage them²; it will be totally transparent for you.
The upcoming modules are located in `/grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64`, and you can try them today!
In order to use them you need to perform the following commands¹:
unset MODULEPATH
module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest
The list of modules for the `latest` release is available here:
https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/software.
We know it's missing a few software compared to the current modules, we've tracked them [here](https://gitlab.inria.fr/moyens-de-calcul/environnement-logiciel/-/issues?sort=created_...
Changes to VS Code and AI Extensions Usage on Frontend
Recently, we have observed a critical increase in resource consumption (CPU and memory) on these nodes. This is primarily caused by VS Code Server (or similar) instances and associated AI-assisted coding extensions (such as Copilot, Tabnine, or local LLM agents) running directly on the frontend.
As a reminder, frontends are strictly dedicated to lightweight tasks: code editing, file management, and job submission. Running heavy background processes or AI agents on these shared machines degrades performance for the entire community and risks crashing the machines. Frontend are not sized for heavy code/system compilation/build either. Heavy tasks must be run on reserved nodes.
What is changing:
- ban on frontend: running VS Code Server (or similar), AI extensions, or any background development agents directly on the frontend will shortly be prohibited. - automated cleanup: we will actively monitor these nodes. Any unauthorized, resource-intensive processes or persistent VS Code servers found running on the login nodes will be terminated without prior warning.
How to continue using VS Code and AI tools?:
We fully understand that these tools could be essential for your work. Therefore, this usage is completely permitted and supported on the compute nodes.
To use VS Code and your AI agents properly, you must schedule an interactive session via the batch scheduler (OAR). You can do this by:
- Requesting an interactive allocation using oarsub -I.
- Tunneling your VS Code Remote-SSH connection directly to the allocated compute node instead of the frontend
This ensures you have dedicated resources for your AI tools without impacting other users.
-- Grid'5000 Team 16:00, 15 Jun 2026 (CEST)
End of support for Rocky8/9 and ubuntu2004
Support for the Rocky8/9 and Ubuntu2004 kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.
The last version of the Rocky8 environments (version 2024071119), Rocky9 environments (version 2024071119), Ubuntu2004 environments (version 2025031116) 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 09:40, 10 May 2026 (CEST)
Cluster Chicoree is now in default queue at Lille
We are pleased to announce that the Chicoree [1] cluster is now available in the default queue.
Chicoree is a cluster composed of 1 Proliant DL380a Gen12 node, featuring:
This cluster was funded by the CPER CornelIA.
This cluster is tagged as "exotic", so the `-t exotic` option must be provided to oarsub to select chicoree.
[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Lille:Hardware#chicoree
Best regards, Grid'5000 Technical Team
-- Grid'5000 Team 09:30, 04 June 2026 (CEST)
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