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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 and 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. Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018) Recently published documents and presentations: Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Older documents: 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 2025-05-12 16:27): 2 current events, 12 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

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

• Liam Cripwell, Joël Legrand, Claire Gardent. Simplicity Level Estimate (SLE): A Learned Reference-Less Metric for Sentence Simplification. 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, Dec 2023, Singapore, Singapore. pp.12053-12059, 10.18653/v1/2023.emnlp-main.739. hal-04369824 view on HAL pdf
• Sofya Dymchenko, Abhishek Purandare, Bruno Raffin. MelissaDL x Breed: Towards Data-Efficient On-line Supervised Training of Multi-parametric Surrogates with Active Learning. AI4S 2024 - 5th Workshop on artificial intelligence and machine learning for scientific applications, Nov 2024, Atlanta (Georgia), United States. pp.1-9. hal-04712480 view on HAL pdf
• Can Cui, Imran Ahamad Sheikh, Mostafa Sadeghi, Emmanuel Vincent. Joint Beamforming and Speaker-Attributed ASR for Real Distant-Microphone Meeting Transcription. 2023. hal-04755558 view on HAL pdf
• Cherif Latreche, Nikos Parlavantzas, Hector A Duran-Limon. FoRLess: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based approach for FaaS Placement in Fog. UCC 2024 - 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dec 2024, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. pp.1-9. hal-04791252 view on HAL pdf
• Tristan Coignion, Clément Quinton, Romain Rouvoy. A Performance Study of LLM-Generated Code on Leetcode. EASE'24 - 28th International Conference on Evaluation and Assessment in Software Engineering, Jun 2024, Salerno, Italy. 10.1145/3661167.3661221. hal-04525620 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

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)

Cluster "Hydra" is now in the testing queue in Lyon

We are pleased to announce that the hydra[1] cluster of Lyon is now available in the testing queue.

Hydra is a cluster composed of 4 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper servers[2].

Each node features:

1 Nvidia Grace ARM64 CPU with 72 cores (Neoverse-V2)

1 Nvidia Hopper GPU

512GB LPDDR5 memory

96GB HBM memory

1x1To SSD NVME + 1x1.92To SCSI disk

Due to its bleeding edge hardware, usual Grid'5000 environments are not supported by default for this cluster.

(Hydra requires system environments featuring a Linux kernel >= 6.6). The default system on the hydra nodes is based on Debian11, but **does not provide functional GPU**. However, users may deploy the ubuntugh2404-arm64-big environment, which is similar to official Nvidia image provided for this machine and provides GPU support.

To submit a job on this cluster, the following command may be used:

oarsub -q testing -t exotic -p hydra

This cluster is funded by INRIA and by Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme with ENS Lyon support.

[1] Hydra is the largest of the modern constellations according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(constellation)

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-hopper-superchip-architecture-in-depth/

-- Grid'5000 Team 16:10, 11 March 2025 (CEST)

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Grid'5000 sites

Grenoble Lille Luxembourg

Lyon Nancy Nantes

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

Current funding

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