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Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-FR, the French node 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Content on this website is partly outdated.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 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:

20th anniversary commemoration (2023) → presentations video replay (French only)
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).

Most recent news

SSH policy changes on access machine

Dear users,

Due to multiple occurences of bad usages of the access machine, the technical team has decided to change the SSH connection mode to the...

Debian 13 "Trixie" std environment is now the default environment on (almost) all nodes

Dear users,

We are pleased to announce that Debian 13 (Trixie) std environment is now the default environment on most nodes. See `kaenv3 -l debian%...

Some clusters under Debian 13 "Trixie" environment by default and migration maintenance

Dear users,

The default standard environment has changed to Debian 13 for some

selected clusters over the past few weeks.

Here they are:

grenoble :...

Upcoming changes to modules

Hello everyone,

Let's start with a quick TLDR, details on the rationale and implementation are available below: new modules will be available with ...

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall):

Florian Rascoussier, Romain Billot, Lina Fahed, Christine Solnon. Impact of Scaling and Rounding on Metaheuristic Performance for the Vehicle Routing Problem with Time Windows. 16th Metaheuristics International Conference, 2026, Ischia, Italy. hal-05646952 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
Cédric Prigent, Kate Keahey, Alexandru Costan, Loïc Cudennec, Gabriel Antoniu. On the Reproducibility Challenges of Federated Learning: Investigating the Gap between Simulation, Emulation and Real-World Deployments. CCGrid 2025 - IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, May 2025, Tromso, Norway. pp.185-194, 10.1109/ccgrid64434.2025.00054. hal-04997547 view on HAL pdf
Théophile Bastian. Towards automatic characterization of microarchitectural behaviour form performance modeling of computing kernels : an analysis of the Cortex A72 and Intel microarchitectures. Hardware Architecture cs.AR. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2024. English. NNT : 2024GRALM072. tel-05116111 view on HAL pdf
Thomas Morin, Nathalie Furmento, Abdou Guermouche, Samuel Thibault, Pierre-André Wacrenier. Longest-Path-Based Task Splitting for Homogeneous Platforms. PPAM 2026 - International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Aug 2026, Poznan, Poland. hal-05666815 view on HAL pdf

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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+<b>Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of [https://www.slices-fr.eu SLICES-FR], the French node of [https://www.slices-ri.eu SLICES-RI], Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.</b>
-= ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of '''Grid'5000''' =
+<br/>
-= for the 2008-2011 period =
+Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.
-''An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems''
-Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by Inria, under the ''ADT ALADDIN-G5K''  initiative.
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-==Latest news==
+[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|300px|left||link=https://www.grid5000.fr]]
-[[Image:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+'''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.'''
-=== Grid'5000 spring school to be held in Nancy, in April 2009 ===
-A Grid'5000 spring school is in preparation for 3 to 4 days between April 6, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. Expect a call for presentations to be ready during the month of January 2009, but you should already reserve the corresponding dates in your agenda.
-[[Image:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+Key features:
-=== Grid'5000 seminars and tutorials organized on most Grid'5000 sites ===
+* 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
-The [[Media:intro_g5k.pdf|slides]] are available online.
+* '''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_SC08-3.png|left|84px|SuperComputing 2008]]
+<br>
-===[http://sc08.supercomputing.org/ Grid'5000 at SC'08]===
+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]].
-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>
+Published documents and presentations:
+* [https://www.inria.fr/fr/grid5000-20-ans-hpc-reseau-informatique 20th anniversary commemoration (2023)] → [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD5-Y0vcmVI presentations video replay] (French only)
+* [[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:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+Older documents:
-=== Workshop on Grid'5000 and network virtualization to be held in Paris, October 16th 2008 ===
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
-Anyone working on attempting to abstract the Grid'5000 network, locally on one site or globally, should mark this date on her or his agenda. Please refer to [[WorkshopVirtualisationReseau2008 | Call for participation, program and inscriptions]].
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/ScientificCommittee/SAB%20report%20final%20short.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014)]
+<br>
+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).
+||
+'''Most recent news'''
+<rss max=4 item-max-length="150">https://www.grid5000.fr/rss/G5KNews.php</rss>
+<center>
+[[News|Read more news]]
+</center>
+|}
-[[Image:Award_Olivier.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-AWARD]]
+----
-=== First ALADDIN-G5K award given to Olivier Richard ===
+{{#status:0|0|0|http://bugzilla.grid5000.fr/status/upcoming.json}}
-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
-[[Image:Logo_Aladdin.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-G5K]]
+== Random pick of publications ==
-=== ALADDIN-G5K now officially started ===
+{{#publications:}}
-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]].
-[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
-|}
-<br>
+=== Grid'5000 sites===
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
+{|width="100%" cellspacing="3"
-[[Image:site_map.png|thumbnail|128px|right|Grid'5000 sites]]
-* '''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:
-===Sites:===
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-* [[Bordeaux:Home|Bordeaux]]
 * [[Grenoble:Home|Grenoble]]
 * [[Lille:Home|Lille]]
+* [[Luxembourg:Home|Luxembourg]]
+* [[Louvain:Home|Louvain]]
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 * [[Lyon:Home|Lyon]]
 * [[Nancy:Home|Nancy]]
-* [[Orsay:Home|Orsay]]
+* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
+* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
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-* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
 * [[Sophia:Home|Sophia-Antipolis]]
+* [[Strasbourg:Home|Strasbourg]]
 * [[Toulouse:Home|Toulouse]]
 |-
 |}
-* 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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-===Ministère de l'Education, de la Jeunesse et de la Recherche===
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-===ACI Grid===
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 ===INRIA===
-[[Image:Logo-inria.png]]
+[[Image:Logo_INRIA.gif|300px|link=https://www.inria.fr]]
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 ===CNRS===
-[[Image:Logo-cnrs.png]]
+[[Image:CNRS-filaire-Quadri.png|125px|link=https://www.cnrs.fr]]
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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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