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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 and 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.

Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)

Recently 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 2025-11-20 14:34): 4 current events, 13 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

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

Ahmed Alharbi, Charles Bouillaguet. Artificial Results From Hardware Synthesis. 2025. hal-04896063 view on HAL pdf
Quentin Guilloteau. Control-based runtime management of HPC systems with support for reproducible experiments. Performance cs.PF. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM075. tel-04389290v2 view on HAL pdf
Hee-Soo Choi, Priyansh Trivedi, Mathieu Constant, Karën Fort, Bruno Guillaume. Beyond Model Performance: Can Link Prediction Enrich French Lexical Graphs?. The 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING), May 2024, Turin, Italy. hal-04537462 view on HAL pdf
Hugo Pompougnac, Alban Dutilleul, Christophe Guillon, Nicolas Derumigny, Fabrice Rastello. Performance bottlenecks detection through microarchitectural sensitivity. Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA). 2024, pp.1-15. hal-04796942 view on HAL pdf
Gautier Evennou, Vivien Chappelier, Ewa Kijak, Teddy Furon. SWIFT: Semantic Watermarking for Image Forgery Thwarting. WIFS 2024 - 16th IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security, IEEE, Dec 2024, Roma, Italy. pp.1-6. hal-04728070 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

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)

Cluster "chuc" is now in the default queue in Lille

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

Chuc is a cluster composed of 8 nodes Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus.

Each node features:

1x CPU AMD EPYC 7513 (Zen 3), x86_64, 32 cores/CPU

4x GPU Nvidia A100-SXM4-40GB (40 GiB)

512 GiB RAM

4x 1.92 TB SSD SAS HPE

Due to a wattmeter hardware error, the cluster's energy consumption cannot be monitored via wattmeters yet.

You will be informed when the physical energy monitoring is available on this cluster.

This cluster was funded by the CornelIA CPER project.

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Lille:Hardware#chuc

Best regards,

Grid'5000 Technical Team

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:51, 15 September 2025 (CEST)

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 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