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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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:

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 2025-10-04 12:37): 5 current events, 4 planned (details)


Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2924 overall):

  • Georges da Costa, Amina Guermouche. Measurement methods sheet, WG6 Exa-Soft. Université de Toulouse; Université de bordeaux. 2025. hal-05272179 view on HAL pdf
  • Maxime Agusti, Eddy Caron, Benjamin Fichel, Laurent Lefèvre, Olivier Nicol, et al.. PowerHeat: A non-intrusive approach for estimating the power consumption of bare metal water-cooled servers. 2024 IEEE International Conferences on Internet of Things (iThings) and IEEE Green Computing & Communications (GreenCom) and IEEE Cyber, Physical & Social Computing (CPSCom) and IEEE Smart Data (SmartData) and IEEE Congress on Cybermatics, Aug 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark. pp.1-7. hal-04662683 view on HAL pdf
  • Philippe Ledent, Radu Mateescu, Wendelin Serwe. Testing Resource Isolation for System-on-Chip Architectures. MARS 2024 - 6th Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems, Apr 2024, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. pp.1-40, 10.48550/arXiv.2403.18720. hal-04573384 view on HAL pdf
  • Daniel Rosendo, Marta Mattoso, Alexandru Costan, Renan Souza, Débora Pina, et al.. ProvLight: Efficient Workflow Provenance Capture on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. Cluster 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Oct 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. pp.1-13. hal-04161546 view on HAL pdf
  • Anderson Andrei Da Silva. Investigating the Impacts of Multi-Object Scheduling Policies for Serverless Functions on the Edge-Cloud Continuum. Machine Learning cs.LG. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM078. tel-04974687 view on HAL pdf


Latest news

Rss.svgTutorials of the SLICES-FR school 2025

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The tutorial of the first SLICES-FR School, which was held from July 7th to 11th in Lyon are available on the following pages:

  • All tutorials
  • Grid'5000 tutorials
  • -- Grid'5000 Team 15:19, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgEnd of support for Debian10 environments

    Support for the debian10/buster kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

    The last version of the debian10 environments (version 2025082716) 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 09:21, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster "chuc" is now in the default queue in Lille

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

    Chuc is a cluster composed of 8 nodes Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus.

    Each node features:

  • 1x CPU AMD EPYC 7513 (Zen 3), x86_64, 32 cores/CPU
  • 4x GPU Nvidia A100-SXM4-40GB (40 GiB)
  • 512 GiB RAM
  • 4x 1.92 TB SSD SAS HPE
  • Due to a wattmeter hardware error, the cluster's energy consumption cannot be monitored via wattmeters yet.

    You will be informed when the physical energy monitoring is available on this cluster.

    This cluster was funded by the CornelIA CPER project.

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Lille:Hardware#chuc

    Best regards,

    Grid'5000 Technical Team

    -- Grid'5000 Team 09:51, 15 September 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster "larochette" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

    Larochette is a cluster composed of 7 nodes, each with 4 MI210 AMD GPUs.

    Each node features:

  • 2x CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+ (48 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)
  • 4x AMD Instinct MI210 (64 GiB each)
  • 512 GiB RAM
  • 1x 3.2TB NVME disk
  • This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Luxembourg:Hardware#larochette

    -- Grid'5000 Team 17:46, 26 August 2025 (CEST)


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    Grid'5000 sites

    Current funding

    INRIA

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    CNRS

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    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