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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, 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 level
advanced monitoring and measurement features for networking and power consumption, to provide 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 strong technical team

Read more about our teams, our publications, and acceptable usage on the testbed. Then get an account, and learn to use the testbed with our Getting Started tutorial and the rest of our Users portal.

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 3000 overall):

Samuel Pélissier, Abhishek Kumar Mishra, Mathieu Cunche, Vincent Roca, Didier Donsez. Efficiently linking LoRaWAN identifiers through multi-domain fingerprinting. Pervasive and Mobile Computing, 2025, 112, pp.102082. 10.1016/j.pmcj.2025.102082. hal-05120767 view on HAL pdf
Alan Lira Nunes, Cristina Boeres, Lúcia Maria de A. Drummond, Laércio Lima Pilla. Optimal Time and Energy-Aware Client Selection Algorithms for Federated Learning on Heterogeneous Resources. 2024 IEEE 36th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD), Nov 2024, Hilo, France. pp.148-158, 10.1109/SBAC-PAD63648.2024.00021. hal-04690494v2 view on HAL pdf
Volodia Parol-Guarino, Nikos Parlavantzas. Auction-based Placement of Function Chains in the Fog at Scale. Europar 2025 - 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Aug 2025, Dresden, Germany. pp.1-14. hal-05121317 view on HAL pdf
Rahma Hellali, Zaineb Chelly Dagdia, Karine Zeitouni. A Multi-Objective Multi-Agent Interactive Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach for Feature Selection. International conference on neural information processing, Dec 2024, Auckland (Nouvelle Zelande), New Zealand. pp.15. hal-04723314 view on HAL pdf
Romain Pereira, Thierry Gautier, Adrien Roussel, Patrick Carribault. Measuring and Interpreting Dependent Task-based Applications Performances. 15th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics - PPAM 2024, Sep 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic. pp.227-241. hal-04767262 view on HAL pdf

Current status (at 2026-08-20 18:54): 8 current events, 2 planned (details)

Latest news

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