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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:

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 2025-09-18 12:26): 5 current events, 2 planned (details)


Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2922 overall):

  • 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
  • Tu Dinh Ngoc, Boris Teabe, Alain Tchana, Gilles Muller, Daniel Hagimont. HyperTP: A unified approach for live hypervisor replacement in datacenters. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2023, 181, pp.104733. 10.1016/j.jpdc.2023.104733. hal-04477700 view on HAL pdf
  • Miguel Felipe Silva Vasconcelos. Strategies for operating and sizing low-carbon cloud data centers. Other cs.OH. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-..; Universidade de São Paulo (Brésil), 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM093. tel-04678116 view on HAL pdf
  • Jérôme Rouzé, Nouredine Melab, Daniel Tuyttens. A Parallel Genetic Algorithm for Qubit Mapping on Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Machines. International Conference in Optimization and Learning - OLA 2024, May 2024, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-04916922 view on HAL pdf
  • Emmanuel Medernach, Gaël Vila, Axel Bonnet, Sorina Camarasu-Pop. ReproVIP Report #2.1.1 Application Deployment Strategies. CREATIS Université Lyon 1. 2024. hal-04551771 view on HAL pdf


Latest news

Rss.svgCluster "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)

    Rss.svgCluster "larochette" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

    Larochette is a cluster composed of 7 nodes, each with 4 MI210 AMD GPUs.

    The node features:

  • 2x CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8568Y+ (48 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)
  • 4x AMD Instinct MI210 (64 GiB each)
  • 512 GiB RAM
  • 1x 3.2TB NVME disk
  • This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

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

    -- Grid'5000 Team 17:46, 26 August 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgSLICES-FR School 2025

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    The first SLICES-FR School is organized from July 7th to 11th in Lyon.

    This free event, co-organized with the PEPR Cloud and Networks of the Future, brings together researchers, engineers and professionals to explore advances in distributed computing, edge computing, reprogrammable networks and the IoT.

    -- Grid'5000 Team 09:30, 9 July 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster "vianden" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

    Vianden is a cluster of a single node with 8 MI300X AMD GPUs.

    The node features:

  • 2x CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8470 (52 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)
  • 8x AMD Instinct MI300X (192 GiB each)
  • 2TiB RAM
  • 1x 3.2TB NVME disk
  • The AMD MI300X GPUs are not supported by Grid'5000 default system (Debian 11). However, one can easily unlock full GPU functionality by deploying the ubuntu2404-rocm environment:

    fluxembourg$ oarsub -t exotic -t deploy -p vianden -I

    fluxembourg$ kadeploy3 -m vianden-1 ubuntu2404-rocm

    More information in the Exotic page.

    This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

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

    -- Grid'5000 Team 11:30, 27 June 2025 (CEST)


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    Grid'5000 sites

    Current funding

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

    INRIA

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    CNRS

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    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