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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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 stays 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 2025-08-02 05:56): 4 current events, 6 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2793 overall):

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
Prerak Srivastava, Antoine Deleforge, Archontis Politis, Emmanuel Vincent. How to (Virtually) Train Your Speaker Localizer. INTERSPEECH 2023, Aug 2023, Dublin, Ireland. hal-03855912v3 view on HAL pdf
Lucas Leandro Nesi. Strategies for Distributing Task-Based Applications on Heterogeneous Platforms. Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing cs.DC. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-..; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Porto Alegre, Brésil), 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM048. tel-04468314 view on HAL pdf
Donatien Schmitz, Guillaume Rosinosky, Etienne Rivière. Justin: Hybrid CPU/Memory Elastic Scaling for Distributed Stream Processing ⋆. DAIS 2025 - 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Daniel Balouek; Ibéria Medeiros, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.1-17. hal-05081993 view on HAL pdf
Mateusz Gienieczko, Filip Murlak, Charles Paperman. Supporting Descendants in SIMD-Accelerated JSONPath. International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS 2024), 2024, San Diego (California), United States. pp.338-361, 10.4230/LIPIcs. hal-04398350 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

SLICES-FR School 2025

The first SLICES-FR School is organized from July 7th to 11th in Lyon.

This free event, co-organized with the PEPR Cloud and Networks of the Future, brings together researchers, engineers and professionals to explore advances in distributed computing, edge computing, reprogrammable networks and the IoT.

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:30, 9 July 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "vianden" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

Vianden is a cluster of a single node with 8 MI300X AMD GPUs.

The node features:

2x CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8470 (52 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)

8x AMD Instinct MI300X (192 GiB each)

2TiB RAM

1x 3.2TB NVME disk

The AMD MI300X GPUs are not supported by Grid'5000 default system (Debian 11). However, one can easily unlock full GPU functionality by deploying the ubuntu2404-rocm environment:

fluxembourg$ oarsub -t exotic -t deploy -p vianden -I

fluxembourg$ kadeploy3 -m vianden-1 ubuntu2404-rocm

More information in the Exotic page.

This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Luxembourg:Hardware#vianden

-- Grid'5000 Team 11:30, 27 June 2025 (CEST)

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)

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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