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Grid'5000 Grid'5000 is a large-scale and versatile testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing including Cloud, HPC and Big Data. Key features: provides access to a large amount of resources: 12000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 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. Recently published documents and presentations: Presentation of Grid'5000 during the 1st Grid'5000-FIT school (April 2018) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 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] Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014) 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 2026-09-06 18:01): 9 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3007 overall):

• 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
• Kenta Ishiguro, Fonyuy-Asheri Caleb, Elouan Barraud, Renaud Lachaize, Yérom-David Bromberg, et al.. Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Machine Live Migration Between Heterogeneous Processors. EUROSYS 2026 - 21st European Conference on Computer Systems, Apr 2026, Edimbourg, United Kingdom. 10.1145/3767295.3803609. hal-05513543v2 view on HAL pdf
• Simon Lambert, Vladimir Ostapenco, Laurent Lefèvre, Eddy Caron, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, et al.. Revisiting virtual machine consolidation to save resources and energy in heterogeneous production cloud infrastructures. ICT4S 2025 - International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability, Jun 2025, Dublin, Ireland. pp.1-1, 2025. hal-05100569 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
• Alexandre Sabbadin, Tom Guérout. Towards a Classification of Edge Service Orchestration Strategies Integrating Renewable Energy. 22nd International Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2024), Dec 2024, Tunis (Tunisie), Tunisia. hal-05010531 view on HAL pdf

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Current funding

As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA	CNRS
Universities 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