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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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:

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 2025-06-19 18:23): 2 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2774 overall):

Céline Acary-Robert, Emmanuel Agullo, Ludovic Courtès, Marek Felšöci, Konrad Hinsen, et al.. Guix-HPC Activity Report 2022–2023. Inria Bordeaux - Sud Ouest. 2024, pp.1-32. hal-04500140 view on HAL pdf
Marc Jourdan, Rémy Degenne, Emilie Kaufmann. An ε-Best-Arm Identification Algorithm for Fixed-Confidence and Beyond. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2023, New Orleans, United States. hal-04306214 view on HAL pdf
Maurice Brémond, Hugo Brunie, Laurent Debreu, Rupert W Ford, Florian Lemarié, et al.. Poseidon: A Source-to-Source Translator for Holistic HPC Optimizations of Ocean Models on Regular Grids. SC 2024 - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov 2024, Atlanta (Georgia), United States. , pp.1-1, 2024, 10.5281/zenodo.11190458. hal-04811677 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
Guillaume Helbecque, Jan Gmys, Nouredine Melab, Tiago Carneiro, Pascal Bouvry. Parallel Distributed Productivity-aware Tree-Search using Chapel. Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, 2023, 35 (27), pp.e7874. 10.1002/cpe.7874. hal-04165491 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

Cluster "hydra" is now in the default queue in Lyon

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

As a reminder, 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, the 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 Debian 11, but **does not provide functional GPUs**. However, users may deploy the ubuntugh2404-arm64-big environment, which is similar to the 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 -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 16:42, 12 June 2025 (CEST)

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)

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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+[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|260px|right|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
-[[Image:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+<br>
-=== ALADDIN-G5K [[Grid5000:Open_Positions|now recruiting]] for its technical team ===
+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]].
-We are [[Grid5000:Open_Positions|looking]] for 3 sysadmins and 2 developpers.
+<br>
+Published documents and presentations:
+* [[Media:Grid5000.pdf|Presentation of Grid'5000]] (April 2019)
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/images/Grid5000_science-advisory-board_report_2018.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)]
-[[Image:Award_Olivier.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-AWARD]]
+Older documents:
-=== First ALADDIN-G5K award given to Oliver Richard ===
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
-During ALADDIN-G5K's kick-off meeting, Olivier Richard was given the first ALADDIN-G5K award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the architecture and key software of ALADDIN / Grid'5000
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/ScientificCommittee/SAB%20report%20final%20short.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014)]
-[[Image:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+<br>
-=== ALADDIN-G5K now officially started ===
+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|HEMERA]] (2010-2014).
-ALADDIN-G5K, INRIA's action to support Grid'5000 during the next 4 years has now officially been accepted. A [[Grid5000:Aladdin-G5K kick-off meeting|Kick-off meeting]] was held July 9-10, 2008 and the technical staff is [[Grid5000:Open_Positions|now recruiting]].
+|}
-[[Image:Logo_SC08-3.png|left|84px|SuperComputing 2008]]
+<br>
-===[http://sc08.supercomputing.org/ Grid'5000 at SC'08]===
+{{#status:0|0|0|http://bugzilla.grid5000.fr/status/upcoming.json}}
-Grid'5000 will be represented at SuperComputing 2008, Austin, Texas (USA). We will be pleased to welcome you at INRIA's booth and present the platform, its tools, and ALADDIN-G5K.
+<br>
+== Random pick of publications ==
+{{#publications:}}
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+==Latest news==
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+----
+[[News|Read more news]]
-<br>
+=== Grid'5000 sites===
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
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-* '''Grid'5000''' project aims at building a '''highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform''' gathering '''9 sites''' geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 processors:
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-* [[Bordeaux:Home|Bordeaux]]
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 * [[Lille:Home|Lille]]
+* [[Luxembourg:Home|Luxembourg]]
+* [[Louvain:Home|Louvain]]
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 * [[Lyon:Home|Lyon]]
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-* [[Orsay:Home|Orsay]]
+* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
+* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
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+* [[Strasbourg:Home|Strasbourg]]
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-* The main purpose of this platform is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing.
+== Current funding ==
-* This project is one initiative of the [http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/recherche/fns/grid.htm French ACI Grid] incentive (see below: Funding Institutions) which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.
-[[Image:Software layers.png|thumbnail|271px|left|Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers]]
-* '''Grid'5000''' is a research effort developping a '''large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research'''.
-* '''17 [[Grid5000:Laboratories|laboratories]]''' are involved, nation wide, in the objective of providing the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.
-The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 local platform (at least one cluster per site), each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the [http://www.renater.fr RENATER] Education and Research Network.
-All clusters will be connected to Renater with a 10Gb/s link (or at least 1 Gb/s, when 10Gb/s is not available yet).
-This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.
-==Rationale==
-'''The foundations of Grid'5000''' have emerged from a thorough analysis and numerous discussions about methodologies used for scientific research in the Grid domain. A report presents the [http://www-sop.inria.fr/aci/grid/public/Library/rapport-grid5000-V3.pdf rationale for Grid'5000].
-In addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for '''large scale testbeds''' where real life experimental conditions hold. '''The size of Grid'5000''', in terms of number of sites and number of processors per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.
-==Funding Institutions==
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 ===Universities===
-University of Paris Sud, Orsay<br/>
+IMT Atlantique<br/>
-University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble<br/>
+Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP<br/>
-University of Nice-Sophia Antipolis, Sophia Antipolis<br/>
+Université Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
-University of Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
 Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse<br/>
-University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux<br/>
+Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux<br/>
-University Lille 1 / GENOPOLE, Lille<br/>
+Université Lille 1, Lille<br/>
-Ecole Normale Supérieure / MYRICOM, Lyon<br/>
+École Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
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 ===Regional councils===
+Aquitaine<br/>
+Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes<br/>
 Bretagne<br/>
+Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
 Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
-Aquitaine<br/>
+Hauts de France<br/>
-Ile de France<br/>
 Lorraine<br/>
-===General Councils===
-Alpes Maritimes
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