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Grid'5000 Grid'5000 is a large-scale and versatile testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing including Cloud, HPC and Big Data. Key features: provides access to a large amount of resources: 12000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 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. Recently published documents and presentations: Presentation of Grid'5000 during the 1st Grid'5000-FIT school (April 2018) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018) Older documents: https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014] Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014) 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 2026-04-15 08:34): 5 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2940 overall):

• Cassandre Vey, Adrien van den Bossche, Réjane Dalcé, Georges da Costa, Olivier Negro, et al.. Experimenting IoT-Edge-Cloud- HPC Continuum on Existing Platforms. 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), IEEE, May 2025, Tromsø Norway, Norway. 10.1109/CCGridW65158.2025.00026. hal-05147272 view on HAL pdf
• Yarin Oziel, Tomer Laor, Shlomi Levy, Clémentine Maurice, Yossi Oren, et al.. WIP: A Second Look at Port Assignment on Intel CPUs. uASC 2026 - 2nd Microarchitecture Security Conference, Feb 2026, Leuven, Belgium. hal-05337434 view on HAL pdf
• Anas Mokhtari, Baptiste Jonglez, Thomas Ledoux. Towards Digital Sustainability: Involving Cloud Users as Key Players. IC2E 2024 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Sep 2024, Paphos, Cyprus. pp.126-132, 10.1109/IC2E61754.2024.00021. hal-04633237 view on HAL pdf
• Jérémie Rodez, Patricia Stolf, Thierry Monteil. Placement of Distributed Machine Learning Services for AI- and Smart Grid-Enabled IoT Platforms. 2026. hal-05279358 view on HAL pdf
• Ophélie Renaud, Karol Desnos, Erwan Raffin, Jean-François Nezan. Multicore and Network Topology Codesign for Pareto-Optimal Multinode Architecture. EUSIPCO, EURASIP, Aug 2024, Lyon, France. pp.701-705, 10.23919/EUSIPCO63174.2024.10715023. hal-04608249 view on HAL pdf

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Current funding

As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA	CNRS
Universities 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