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

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 2026-04-20 21:20): 5 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2940 overall):

Augustin Bariant, Jules Baudrin, Gaëtan Leurent, Clara Pernot, Léo Perrin, et al.. Fast AES-Based Universal Hash Functions and MACs. IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2024, 2024 (2), pp.35-67. 10.46586/tosc.v2024.i2.35-67. hal-04710478 view on HAL pdf
Youwan Mahé, Elise Bannier, Stéphanie Leplaideur, Elisa Fromont, Francesca Galassi. Unsupervised Detection of Post-Stroke Brain Abnormalities. ISBI 2026 - 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging, Apr 2026, London, United Kingdom. hal-05335158v2 view on HAL pdf
Gaël Vila, Emmanuel Medernach, Inés Gonzalez, Axel Bonnet, Yohan Chatelain, et al.. The Impact of Hardware Variability on Applications Packaged with Docker and Guix: a Case Study in Neuroimaging. ACM REP'24, ACM, Jun 2024, Rennes, France. pp.75-84, 10.1145/3641525.3663626. hal-04480308v2 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
Houssam Elbouanani, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, Thierry Turletti. Fidelity-aware Large-scale Distributed Network Emulation. Computer Networks, 2024, 10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110531. hal-04591699 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
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Hauts de France
Lorraine