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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 (April 2019) 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 2026-09-29 03:14): 9 current events, 5 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3009 overall):

• 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
• Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon, Pierre Monnin. Link Prediction or Perdition: the Seeds of Instability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings. ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-05542928v2 view on HAL pdf
• Thomas Stavis, Laurent Lefèvre, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Placing leverages on Clouds for footprint reduction. ICT4S - International Conference on Information and Communications Technology for Sustainability, Jun 2025, Dublin, Ireland. 2025. hal-05491814 view on HAL pdf
• Hadrien Crassous, Mohamed Yassine Kabouri, Minahil Raza, Joni Pajarinen, Riad Akrour. Embodied Active Learning under Limited Annotation and Navigation Budget for Object Detection. IROS 2026 - IEEE RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sep 2026, Pittsburg, United States. hal-05701172v2 view on HAL pdf
• Georges da Costa, Amina Guermouche. Measurement methods sheet, WG6 Exa-Soft. Université de Toulouse; Université de bordeaux. 2025. hal-05272179 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