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Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.

Grid'5000

Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing, including Cloud, HPC, Big Data and AI.

Key features:

provides access to a large amount of resources: 15000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: PMEM, 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.

Published documents and presentations:

Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019)
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)

Older documents:

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 2025-11-28 01:15): 7 current events, 5 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2925 overall):

Daniel Balouek. Performance-cost trade-offs in service orchestration for edge computing. SSDBM 2024 - 36th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Edge Computing; Resource Management; Computing Continuum; Trade-offs; Urgent Computing, Jul 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-4, 10.1145/3676288.3676307. hal-04775133 view on HAL pdf
Igor Fontana de Nardin. Ordonnancement en ligne de tâches IT et engagement de sources dans un centre de calcul alimenté par des énergies renouvelables. Réseaux et télécommunications cs.NI. Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT, 2023. Français. NNT : 2023INPT0104. tel-04361471 view on HAL pdf
Chih-Kai Huang. Scalability of public geo-distributed fog computing federations. Other cs.OH. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS055. tel-04910860v2 view on HAL pdf
Mai Huong Do, Millian Poquet, Georges da Costa. FedE-ator : A framework for energy consumption analysis of federated learning in distributed systems. Compas’2025 : Parallélisme / Architecture/ Système, Jul 2025, Bordeaux, France. hal-05181877 view on HAL pdf
Anderson Andrei Da Silva. Investigating the Impacts of Multi-Object Scheduling Policies for Serverless Functions on the Edge-Cloud Continuum. Machine Learning cs.LG. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM078. tel-04974687 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

Some changes on the hardware configuration of Grenoble nodes

We recently did somes hardware changes on clusters yeti, troll and dahu.

The changes are as follows:

yeti :

Following a malfunction of the two NVMe disks on yeti-3, an NVMe disk from yeti-1 has been transferred to yeti-3 to ensure that we have at least one functional NVMe disk per yeti node. New NVMe configuration of the nodes:

yeti-[1,3]: 1× NVMe
yeti-[2,4]: 2× NVMe

troll :

Due to experimentation needs, the steering committee agreed to change the hardware configuration of the troll cluster, replacing the Omnipath HPC network interconnect (interconnecting troll to yeti and dahu) by the Infiniband HPC network interconnect already available for the drac cluster.

dahu :

A few nodes of the dahu cluster recently encountered a recurrent problem with their OPA interfaces. Instead of fully retiring those nodes, we chose to disable their OPA interfaces.

This change means that if you want to reserve a dahu node with OPA, you must specify it in your oarsub request. For example:

oarsub -I -p "dahu and opa_count > 0"

The nodes that have been modified are dahu-18, dahu-26 and dahu-30. More nodes may be added to this list in the future.

-- Grid'5000 Team 14:50, 24 November 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "clervaux" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

We are pleased to announce that the clervaux[1] cluster of Luxembourg is now available in the default queue.

Clervaux is a cluster composed of 48 CPU nodes.

Each node features:

2x CPU Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)

128 GiB RAM

1x 120GB SSD SATA disk

This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Luxembourg:Hardware#clervaux

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:50, 21 October 2025 (CEST)

Tutorials of the SLICES-FR school 2025

The tutorial of the first SLICES-FR School, which was held from July 7th to 11th in Lyon are available on the following pages:

All tutorials

Grid'5000 tutorials

-- Grid'5000 Team 15:19, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

End of support for Debian10 environments

Support for the debian10/buster kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

The last version of the debian10 environments (version 2025082716) will remain available on /grid5000. Older versions can still be accessed in the archive directory (see /grid5000/README.unmaintained-envs for more information).

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:21, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

IMT Atlantique
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