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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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

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 2026-07-02 19:06): 6 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2954 overall):

Danilo Carastan-Santos, Georges da Costa, Millian Poquet, Patricia Stolf, Denis Trystram. Light-weight prediction for improving energy consumption in HPC platforms. Euro-Par 2024, Carretero, J., Shende, S., Garcia-Blas, J., Brandic, I., Olcoz, K., Schreiber, M., Aug 2024, Madrid, Spain. pp.152-165, 10.1007/978-3-031-69577-3_11. hal-04566184v2 view on HAL pdf
Khaled Arsalane, Guillaume Pierre, Shadi Ibrahim. Toward Stream Processing Elasticity in Realistic Geo-Distributed Environments. IC2E 2024 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, IEEE, Sep 2024, Paphos, Cyprus. pp.1-9, 10.1109/IC2E61754.2024.00020. hal-04655408v2 view on HAL pdf
Barbara Gendron, Gaël Guibon. SEC : contexte émotionnel phrastique intégré pour la reconnaissance émotionnelle efficiente dans la conversation. 35èmes Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP 2024) 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2024) 26ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL 2024), Jul 2024, Toulouse, France. pp.219-233. hal-04623019 view on HAL pdf
Houssem Ouertatani. Efficient Deep Neural Architecture Search via Bayesian Optimization : An application to Computer Vision. Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition cs.CV. Université de Lille, 2024. English. NNT : 2024ULILB044. tel-05014154 view on HAL pdf
Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Méthodologies de calcul d'empreinte carbone sur une plateforme de calcul : exemple du site Grid'5000 de Rennes. JRES 2024 - Journées réseaux de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Renater, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-14. hal-04893984 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

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 the new standard environment, and are already live for testing (but not activated by default).

If you want to test them you need to run the following commands:

unset MODULEPATH

module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest
/grid5000/spack/module-others

Now for more details: for the past months we have been working on updating the standard environment and the way we provide modules.

The current way uses Spack under the hood, and is tightly bound to the underlying operating system.

It's been proven to be quite a burden for the team, and therefore we are changing the way we manage modules to:

- use a solution oblivious to the Linux flavor; - have means to update software versions automatically, and a clear release cycle; - actually have something reproducible; - be able to automatically test our most sensitive modules when they change (on both OAR and SLURM clusters).

Under the hood we switched to Guix to manage them²; it will be totally transparent for you.

The upcoming modules are located in `/grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64`, and you can try them today!

In order to use them you need to perform the following commands¹:

unset MODULEPATH

module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest

The list of modules for the `latest` release is available here:

https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/software.

We know it's missing a few software compared to the current modules, we've tracked them [here](https://gitlab.inria.fr/moyens-de-calcul/environnement-logiciel/-/issues?sort=created_...

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 Server (or similar) instances and associated AI-assisted coding extensions (such as Copilot, Tabnine, or local LLM agents) running directly on the frontend.

As a reminder, frontends are strictly dedicated to lightweight tasks: code editing, file management, and job submission. Running heavy background processes or AI agents on these shared machines degrades performance for the entire community and risks crashing the machines. Frontend are not sized for heavy code/system compilation/build either. Heavy tasks must be run on reserved nodes.

What is changing:

- ban on frontend: running VS Code Server (or similar), AI extensions, or any background development agents directly on the frontend will shortly be prohibited. - automated cleanup: we will actively monitor these nodes. Any unauthorized, resource-intensive processes or persistent VS Code servers found running on the login nodes will be terminated without prior warning.

How to continue using VS Code and AI tools?:

We fully understand that these tools could be essential for your work. Therefore, this usage is completely permitted and supported on the compute nodes.

To use VS Code and your AI agents properly, you must schedule an interactive session via the batch scheduler (OAR). You can do this by:

- Requesting an interactive allocation using oarsub -I.

- Tunneling your VS Code Remote-SSH connection directly to the allocated compute node instead of the frontend

This ensures you have dedicated resources for your AI tools without impacting other users.

-- Grid'5000 Team 16:00, 15 Jun 2026 (CEST)

End of support for Rocky8/9 and ubuntu2004

Support for the Rocky8/9 and Ubuntu2004 kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

The last version of the Rocky8 environments (version 2024071119), Rocky9 environments (version 2024071119), Ubuntu2004 environments (version 2025031116) will remain available on /grid5000.

Older versions can still be accessed in the archive directory (see /grid5000/README.unmaintained-envs for more information).

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:40, 10 May 2026 (CEST)

Cluster Chicoree is now in default queue at Lille

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

Chicoree is a cluster composed of 1 Proliant DL380a Gen12 node, featuring:

2x Intel Xeon 6530P (Granite Rapids), 32 cores/CPU

4x Nvidia H200 141GB GPU with NVLink

1 TiB RAM

4x 3.2 TB NVMe

2x 25Gbps network interface

This cluster was funded by the CPER CornelIA.

This cluster is tagged as "exotic", so the `-t exotic` option must be provided to oarsub to select chicoree.

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

Best regards, Grid'5000 Technical Team

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:30, 04 June 2026 (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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-* provides '''access to a large amount of resources''': 1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI
+* 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 on the networking level
+* '''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 networking and power consumption''', to provide a deep understanding of experiments
+* '''advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption''', providing a deep understanding of experiments
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-* '''a vibrant community''' of 500+ users supported by a strong technical team
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-Read more about our [[Grid5000:People|teams]], our [[Grid5000:Publications|publications]], and [[Grid5000:UserCharter|acceptable usage]] on the testbed. Then [[Grid5000:Get_an_account|get an account]], and learn to use the testbed with our [[Getting_Started|Getting Started tutorial]] and the rest of our [[:Category:Portal:User|Users portal]].
+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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-Recently published documents:
+Published documents and presentations:
-* Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014 (FIXME)
+* [[Media:Grid5000.pdf|Presentation of Grid'5000]] (April 2019)
-* Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board meeting (2014) (FIXME)
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/images/Grid5000_science-advisory-board_report_2018.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)]
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+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).
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-== Latest publications from Grid'5000 users ==
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-==Latest news==
+<br>
-=== [http://www.lifl.fr/~melab/HTML/Journee-G5K-Lille.htm Grid'5000 tutorial days in Lille] ===
-We are happy to let you known that tutorials around Grid'5000 will be organized in Lille on November 20th, 2014, with a few seats available for people outside Lille. All information on the [http://www.lifl.fr/~melab/HTML/Journee-G5K-Lille.htm dedicated web page].
-=== [[Grid5000:School2014|Grid'5000 spring school]] now finished ===
-The Grid'5000 spring school took place between June 16th, 2014 and June 19th, 2014 in Lyon. Three awards were given for presentation or challenge entries (the challenge entries ended as a tie):
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-[[Image:Presentation_Gistau_award.png|252px|Best presentation award to Miguel Liroz Gistau]]
-Best presentation award to Miguel Liroz Gistau, Reza Akbarinia and Patrick Valduriez
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-[[Image:Challenge_Buchert_award.png|252px|Best challenge entry to Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine and Lucas Nussbaum]]
-Best challenge entry to Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine and Lucas Nussbaum
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-[[Image:Challenge_Pastor_award.png|252px|Best challenge entry to Jonathan Pastor and Laurent Pouilloux]]
-Best challenge entry to Jonathan Pastor and Laurent Pouilloux
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-=== Journée Aramis ===
-Le 16/04 aura lieu la journée Aramis "Usages et services du cloud dans notre environnement enseignement supérieur et recherche" avec une présentation de Grid'5000 par Simon Delamare.
-Cette journée est webcastée par la cellule Webcast du CC-IN2P3. Vous pouvez donc suivre en direct les [http://webcast.in2p3.fr/live/pleiniere_aramis_2014 présentations]. Le programme de la journée est disponible [http://aramis.resinfo.org/wiki/doku.php?id=pleniaires:pleniere17avril2014 ici]
-=== [[Grid5000:UserCharter|Grid'5000 Charter]] revised ===
-The Grid'5000 charter has been reworded and simplified so as to be more inclusive about possible uses. The rules to ensure availability during the day for any user and during the night for large resource usage have not been changed.
-=== [[Grid5000:school2014|Grid'5000 school 2014]] announced ===
-Organized in Lyon, from June 16th to June 19th 2014, this [[Grid5000:school2014|spring school]] will bring together, but is not limited to, Grid'5000's users, technical team and executive committee for 4 days of tutorials and talks focusing on best-practices and results. Presentations and practical sessions will cover both basic usage of the platform, for new users, or potential users of Grid'5000 and advanced and new usage of the platform, for current users. Deadline to submit presentation proposals is March 29th, 2014.
-=== Grid'5000 users win second prize at CCGRID 2013's SCALE challenge ===
-Snooze based entry running on Grid'5000 entry wins [http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/awards/ 2nd prize] at [http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/ CCGrid 2013] [http://www.pds.ewi.tudelft.nl/ccgrid2013/calls/scale-challenge/ SCALE challenge]: well done Matthieu and Anne-Cécile for defending the entry titled ''Scalability of the Snooze Autonomic Cloud Management System'' by Eugen Feller, Christine Morin, Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, and Yvon Jégou.
-=== Grid'5000 users finalists of the SCALE'2013 challenge ===
-Two submissions (out of five) from Grid'5000 users took part in the final of the international SCALE'2013 challenge (held with CCGrid'2013):
-* D. Balouek, A. Lèbre, F. Quesnel Flauncher and DVMS -- Deploying and Scheduling Thousands of Virtual Machines on Hundreds of Nodes Distributed Geographically
-* Eugen Feller, Christine Morin, Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, and Yvon Jégou -- Scalability of the Snooze Autonomic Cloud Management System.
-The first proposition presents the deployment and scheduling of thousands of virtual machines, conducted with the Flauncher and DVMS frameworks, across the Grid'5000 testbed.
-The frameworks have been able to deploy and schedule up to 10000 VMs during the tests. This research has been conducted in the context of the INRIA Hemera initiative.
-The second proposition presents the Snooze architecture and focus on the following aspects :
-* System set up scalability and resources consumption,
-* Self-healing capabilities.
-The deployment of Snooze were distributed over several sites of the Grid'5000 testbed.
-The framework has been able to start 11000 of system services, recover thousands of failures
-and used to launch large hadoop/mapreduce experiments.
-This research has been conducted in the context of the INRIA Snooze ADT.
-=== Grid'5000 tutorial during ComPAS'2013 ===
-The [http://compas2013.inrialpes.fr/ ComPAS'2013 conference] (replacing RenPar, SympA and CFSE), to be held in Grenoble between January 15th and 18th, will feature a Grid'5000 tutorial.
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 == Current funding ==
-As from June 2008, INRIA is the main contributor to [[Grid5000:Funding|Grid'5000 funding]].
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 ===Universities===
-University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble<br/>
+IMT Atlantique<br/>
-University of Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
+Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP<br/>
+Université 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, Lille<br/>
+Université Lille 1, Lille<br/>
-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
+École Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims<br/>
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 ===Regional councils===
 Aquitaine<br/>
+Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes<br/>
 Bretagne<br/>
 Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
 Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
-Nord Pas de Calais<br/>
+Hauts de France<br/>
 Lorraine<br/>
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