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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 2026-10-29 23:34): 7 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall):

• Cédric Prigent. Towards Efficient and Trustworthy Federated Learning on the Computing Continuum. Machine Learning cs.LG. INSA de Rennes, 2025. English. NNT : 2025ISAR0003. tel-05279213 view on HAL pdf
• Lluis Prior Sancho, Tommaso Belvedere, Marco Tognon. From Pixels to Touch: Direct Tactile Servoing with Learned Photometric Normalization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, In press, 10.1109/LRA.2026.3685944. hal-05599932 view on HAL pdf
• Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon, Pierre Monnin. Prédiction ou perdition de liens : les graines de l'instabilité dans les plongements de graphes de connaissances. IC2026 - 37es journées de l’Ingénierie des Connaissances, Jul 2026, Arras, France. hal-05646323 view on HAL pdf
• Albert d'Aviau de Piolant, Hayfa Tayeb, Bérenger Bramas, Mathieu Faverge, Abdou Guermouche, et al.. Improving energy efficiency of HPC applications using unbalanced GPU power capping. HCW (Ipdps workshop), Jun 2025, Milan (Italie), Italy. hal-04883872v2 view on HAL pdf
• Léo Valque. 3D Snap rounding. Computer Science cs. Université de Lorraine, 2024. English. NNT : 2024LORR0337. tel-05016163 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