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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 (April 2019) 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 2026-03-09 21:01): 5 current events, 1 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2937 overall):

• 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
• Houssam Elbouanani, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, Thierry Turletti. Fidelity-aware Large-scale Distributed Network Emulation. Computer Networks, 2024, 10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110531. hal-04591699 view on HAL pdf
• Alaaeddine Chaoub. Deep learning representations for prognostics and health management. Computer Science cs. Université de Lorraine, 2024. English. NNT : 2024LORR0057. tel-04687618 view on HAL pdf
• Baptiste Jonglez, Matthieu Simonin, Jolan Philippe, Sidi Mohammed Kaddour. Multi-provider capabilities in EnOSlib: driving distributed system experiments on the edge-to-cloud continuum. DAIS 2025: 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.25-42, 10.1007/978-3-031-95728-4_2. hal-05052776 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

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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