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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: 1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI
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.

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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).

Latest publications from Grid'5000 users

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2924 overall):

Pierre-François Gimenez, Jérôme Mengin. Learning Conditional Preference Networks: an Approach Based on the Minimum Description Length Principle. IJCAI 2024 - 33rd International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Aug 2024, Jeju, South Korea. pp.3395-3403, 10.24963/ijcai.2024/376. hal-04572196 view on HAL pdf
Rodrigo Wilkens, Rémi Cardon, Amalia Todirascu, Núria Gala. 3rd Workshop on Tools and Resources for People with REAding DIfficulties (READI 2024). Workshop at the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2024) jointly organized by the ELRA Language Resources Association and the International Committee on Computational Linguistics, 2024, 978-2-493814-34-0. hal-04580167 view on HAL pdf
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
Clément Courageux-Sudan, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Martin Quinson. Studying the end-to-end performance, energy consumption and carbon footprint of fog applications. ISCC 2024 - 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Jun 2024, Paris, France. pp.1-7. hal-04581677 view on HAL pdf
Reda Khoufache, Anisse Belhadj, Mustapha Lebbah, Hanene Azzag. Distributed MCMC Inference for Bayesian Non-parametric Latent Block Model. 28th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, PAKDD 2024, May 2024, Taipei, Taiwan. pp.271-283, 10.1007/978-981-97-2242-6_22. hal-04623748 view on HAL pdf

Current status (at 2025-12-14 06:16): 7 current events, 1 planned (details)

Latest news

Grid'5000 co-organizing the SUCCES 2015 event

These will take place November 5-6, 2015, in Paris. Dedicated to users of grid, cloud or regional HPC centers, the SUCCES 2015 days are organised by France Grilles, Grid'5000, Groupe Calcul and GDR ASR.

Two systems and network administrator positions available

Grid'5000 is recruiting two systems and network administrators, in either Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Nancy, or Rennes. More details.

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 dedicated web page.

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):

Best presentation award to Miguel Liroz Gistau, Reza Akbarinia and Patrick Valduriez

Best challenge entry to Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine and Lucas Nussbaum

Best challenge entry to Jonathan Pastor and Laurent Pouilloux

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

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

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
University of Rennes 1, Rennes
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux
University Lille 1, Lille
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

Regional councils

Aquitaine
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Nord Pas de Calais
Lorraine