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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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

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...

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 the...

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 avail...

Changes to VS Code and AI Extensions Usage on Frontend

Recently, we have observed a critical increase in resource consumption (CPU and memory) on these nodes. This is primarily caused by VS Code Serv...

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3007 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
Cherif Latreche, Nikos Parlavantzas, Hector A Duran-Limon. Do We Need Reinforcement Learning for Serverless Scheduling at the Edge? A Comparative Evaluation. 25th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC 2026), Jul 2026, Hambourg, Germany. hal-05626844v2 view on HAL pdf
Théo Jolivel, François Tessier, Jakob Luettgau, Gabriel Antoniu, Philippe Deniel. A Methodology for System-Scale I/O Pattern Taxonomy for HPC Workloads. 2025. hal-05448514 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
Antoine Franchini, Stéphane Girard, Anne Dutfoy. Adaptive confidence intervals for extreme quantiles from heavy-tailed distributions. Statistics and Computing, 2026, 36, pp.175. 10.1007/s11222-026-10930-9. hal-05322341v3 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>
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+Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.
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-==Latest news==
+[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|300px|left||link=https://www.grid5000.fr]]
-[[Image:School2006_banner.png|200px|left]]
+'''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.'''
-===[[Grid5000:School2006|Grid'5000 Spring School]]===
-The event will take place in Grenoble (France) between March 6th and March 10th 2006.<br/>
-Already 77 registrations in a single week! The limit (100 participants) is getting close.<br/>
-More information on this page: [[Grid5000:School2006]].
-[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
+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
+<br>
+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]].
+<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)]
+Older documents:
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
+* [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'''
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+[[News|Read more news]]
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-<br>
+----
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
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-[[Image:CarteSites.JPG|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 CPUs:
+== Random pick of publications ==
-===Sites:===
+{{#publications:}}
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+=== Grid'5000 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]]
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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.
-<br>
-==Introduction==
-* '''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:
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-| Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers
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-The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 clusters, 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 at 1 Gb/s (10 Gb/s is expected in near future).
-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.
-<br>
-==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 CPUs per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.
-<br>
-==Funding Institutions==
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-===Ministère de l'Education, de la Jeunesse et de la Recherche===
-[[Image:Logo-Ministere-Recherche.jpg]]
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-===ACI Grid===
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 ===INRIA===
-[[Image:Logo-inria.gif]]
+[[Image:Logo_INRIA.gif|300px|link=https://www.inria.fr]]
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 ===CNRS===
-[[Image:Logo-cnrs.gif]]
+[[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
 |}