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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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 stays 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 2025-06-08 02:17): 1 current events, 6 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2758 overall):

Thomas Tournaire, Hind Castel-Taleb, Emmanuel Hyon. Efficient Computation of Optimal Thresholds in Cloud Auto-scaling Systems. ACM Transactions on Modeling and Performance Evaluation of Computing Systems, 2023, 8 (4), pp.9. 10.1145/3603532. hal-04176076 view on HAL pdf
Romain Xu-Darme, Georges Quénot, Zakaria Chihani, Marie-Christine Rousset. Sanity checks for patch visualisation in prototype-based image classification. 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Workshops (CVPRW), Jun 2023, Vancouvers, Canada. cea-04253851v3 view on HAL pdf
Romaric Pegdwende Nikiema, Marcello Traiola, Angeliki Kritikakou. Impact of Compiler Optimizations on the Reliability of a RISC-V-based Core. DFT 2024 - 37th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Oct 2024, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. pp.1-1. hal-04731794 view on HAL pdf
Anna Kravchenko. Fragment-based modelling of protein-RNA complexes for protein design. Bioinformatics q-bio.QM. Université de Lorraine, 2023. English. NNT : 2023LORR0370. tel-04504677 view on HAL pdf
Sayak Ray Chowdhury, Patrick Saux, Odalric-Ambrym Maillard, Aditya Gopalan. Bregman Deviations of Generic Exponential Families. Conference On Learning Theory (COLT), Jul 2023, Bangalore, India. hal-04161043 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

Cluster "estats" (Jetson nodes in Toulouse) is now kavlan capable

The network topology of the estats Jetson nodes can now be configured, just like for other clusters.

More info in the Network reconfiguration tutorial.

-- Grid'5000 Team 18:25, 21 May 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "chirop" is now in the default queue of Lille with energy monitoring.

Dear users,

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

This cluster consists of 5 HPE DL360 Gen10+ nodes with:

2 CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8358 (32 cores per CPU)

512 GiB memory

1*1.92TB SSD NVME + 2*3.84TB SSD

2*25 Gbps Ethernet interface

Energy monitoring[2] is also available for this cluster[3], provided by newly installed Wattmetres (similar to those already available at Lyon).

This cluster was funded by CPER CornelIA.

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

[2] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Energy_consumption_monitoring_tutorial [3] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Monitoring_Using_Kwollect#Metrics_available_in_Grid.275000

-- Grid'5000 Team 16:25, 05 May 2025 (CEST)

Change of default queue based on platform

Until now, Abaca (production) users had to specify `-q production` when reserving Abaca resources with OAR.

This is no longer necessary as your default queue is now automatically selected based on the platform your default group is associated to, as shown at https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/selector/ and in the message displayed when connecting to a frontend.

For SLICES-FR users, there is no change since the correct queue was already selected by default.

Additionally, the "production" queue has been renamed to "abaca", although "production" will continue to work for the foreseeable future.

Please note one case where this change may affect your workflow:

When an Abaca user reserves a resource from SLICES-FR (a non-production resource), they must explicitly specify they want to use the SLICES-FR queue, which is called "default", by adding `-q default` the OAR command.

-- Abaca Grid'5000 Team 10:10, 31 March 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "musa" with Nvidia H100 GPUs is available in production queue

We are pleased to announce that a new cluster named "musa" is available in the production queue¹ of Abaca.

This cluster has been funded by Inria DSI as a shared computing resource.

It is accessible to all Abaca users. Users affiliated with Inria have access with the same level of priority, regardless of the research center to which they are attached.

This cluster is composed of six HPE Proliant DL385 Gen11 nodes² with 2 AMD EPYC 9254 24-Core Processor, 512 GiB of RAM, 2 x Nvidia H100 NVL (94 GiB) with NVLink, one 6 TB SSD NVME and 25 Gbps Ethernet Connexion

Please note that in order to share it efficiently, walltime is limited:

6 hours for the first two nodes

24 hours for the next two

48 hours for the last two

The cluster "musa" is located at Sophia, hosted in the datacenter of Inria Centre at Université Côte d’Azur.

¹: https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/hardware/sophia/#musa

²: the nodes are named musa-1, musa-2,.., musa-6

-- Grid'5000 Team 13:30, 19 March 2025 (CEST)

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

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 Read more about our [[Team|teams]], our [[Publications|publications]], and the [[Grid5000:UsagePolicy|usage policy]] of the testbed. Then [[Grid5000:Get_an_account|get an account]], and learn how to use the testbed with our [[Getting_Started|Getting Started tutorial]] and the rest of our [[:Category:Portal:User|Users portal]].
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 * [[Media:Grid5000.pdf|Presentation of Grid'5000]] (April 2019)
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