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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 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 2026-04-02 04:35): 6 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2938 overall):

Georges da Costa. Hardware and application aware performance, power and energy models for modern HPC servers with DVFS. Sustainable Computing : Informatics and Systems, 2025, 46, pp.101106. 10.1016/j.suscom.2025.101106. hal-04983485 view on HAL pdf
Mathis Guckert, Hélène Le Cadre, Jean Le Hénaff. A Generalized Potential Game Approach of UAV Swarm Coordination for Hidden Target Localization. IEEE Control Systems Letters, In press. hal-05252199v3 view on HAL pdf
Youenn Merel Jourdan, Mathieu Acher, Camille Maumet. In the Search for Truth: Navigating Variability in Neuroimaging Software Pipelines. SPLC 2025 - 29th ACM International Systems and Software Product Line Conference, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), Sep 2025, Coruna, Spain, Spain. pp.129-135, 10.1145/3744915.3748470. hal-05158426 view on HAL pdf
Lucian Trestioreanu, Flaviene Scheidt, Wazen M. Shbair, Jerome Francois, Damien Magoni, et al.. To Squelch or not to Squelch: Enabling Improved Message Dissemination on the XRP Ledger. 37th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium, May 2024, Séoul, South Korea. 10.1109/NOMS59830.2024.10575886. hal-04621124 view on HAL pdf
Sofía Callejas, Hernan Lira, Andrew Berry, Luis Martí, Nayat Sanchez-Pi. No Plankton Left Behind: Preliminary results on massive plankton image recognition. 1th Latin American High Performance Computing Conference - CARLA 2024, Ginés Guerrero; Jaime San Martín; Esteban Meneses; Carlos J Barrios H; Carla Osthoff; Jose M Monsalve Diaz, Sep 2024, Santiago de Chile, Chile. hal-04803602 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