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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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):

Cassandre Vey, Adrien van den Bossche, Réjane Dalcé, Georges da Costa, Olivier Negro, et al.. Experimenting IoT-Edge-Cloud- HPC Continuum on Existing Platforms. 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), IEEE, May 2025, Tromsø Norway, Norway. 10.1109/CCGridW65158.2025.00026. hal-05147272 view on HAL pdf
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
Ishaan Shah, S Lucas, G Drettakis. Frequency-Aware Spatial-Angular Gaussians for Efficient Global Illumination Precomputation and Real-Time Rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, In press, 45 (4), 10.1111/cgf.70542. hal-05702737 view on HAL pdf
Bruno Lévy, Nicolas Ray, Quentin Merigot, Hugo Leclerc. Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams. Journal of Computational Physics, 2025, pp.114374. 10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114374. hal-05253830 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

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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+'''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''': 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 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 strong technical team
+* '''a vibrant community''' of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team
 <br>
-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)
+* [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)
-* Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board meeting (2014) (FIXME)
+* [[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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-== Latest publications from Grid'5000 users ==
+----
-{{#publications:3||*}}
-<br>
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-==Latest news==
-=== [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
+== Random pick of publications ==
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+{{#publications:}}
-[[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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-[[Image:Logo_INRIA.gif|300px]]
+[[Image:Logo_INRIA.gif|300px|link=https://www.inria.fr]]
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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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