Grid5000:Home
 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:
Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)
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Random pick of publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall):
- Khaled Arsalane. Scalable data stream processing in heterogenous environments. Other cs.OH. Université de Rennes, 2025. English. NNT : 2025URENS105. tel-05651478 view on HAL pdf
- Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue. In Data or Invisible: Toward a Better Digital Representation of Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs. ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-05608081 view on HAL pdf
- Wèdan Emmanuel Gnibga. Modeling and optimization of Edge infrastructures and their electrical systems. Databases cs.DB. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS069. tel-04967447 view on HAL pdf
- Lluis Prior Sancho, Tommaso Belvedere, Marco Tognon. From Pixels to Touch: Direct Tactile Servoing with Learned Photometric Normalization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, In press, 10.1109/LRA.2026.3685944. hal-05599932 view on HAL pdf
- Thomas Bouvier. Distributed Rehearsal Buffers for Continual Learning at Scale. Machine Learning cs.LG. INSA de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024ISAR0011. tel-04986111 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
SSH policy changes on access machine
Dear users,
Due to multiple occurences of bad usages of the access machine, the technical team has decided to change the SSH connection mode to the infrastructure.
Starting from october 29th 2026, the infrastructure SSH server configuration won't allow anymore to connect to the access.grid5000.fr machine. Users will be required to either use a proxyjump in the ssh command line and connect directly to site's frontend or nodes:
$ ssh -J access.grid5000.fr nancy.grid5000.fr
$ scp -J access.grid5000.fr <file> nancy.grid5000.fr:
Or to use the long time already recommended proxycommand configuration in the user's workstation ssh configurations.
Host g5k
User g5k_login Hostname access.grid5000.fr ForwardAgent no
Host *.g5k
User g5k_login ProxyCommand ssh g5k -W "$(basename %h .g5k):%p" ForwardAgent no
This will have one major consequence : home folders won't be accessible anymore on access machine.
outside:~$ rsync -avz local_file rennes.g5k:remote_dir/
g5k_login@flyon:~$ rsync -avz local_dir/ fgrenoble.grenoble:remote_dir/
If you have any questions or problems, please contact support-staff@lists.grid5000.fr
Best regards,
Hugo Dominois, for Abaca and Grid’5000/SLICES-FR
-- Grid'5000 Team 15:57, 28 Oct 2026 (CEST)
Debian 13 "Trixie" std environment is now the default environment on (almost) all nodes
Dear users,
We are pleased to announce that Debian 13 (Trixie) std environment is
now the default environment on most nodes. See `kaenv3 -l debian%13%` for a list of available variants.
There is some significant evolutions, particularly regarding the
environment modules. Indeed, some components that were included in the environment images are now provided by modules loading, including CUDA, ROCm and OpenMPI.
Node network interface now have both IPv4 and (public) IPv6 addresses
by default, which should have no impact on most uses.
For more informations, see the Release Notes, available at
https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Debian_13_Trixie_environments_release_notes
As previous default environment move, frontend of every sites have been reinstalled in Debian 13 too.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact <support-staff@lists.grid5000.fr>
Best regards,
Nicolas Perrin, for Abaca and Grid’5000/SLICES-FR
Inria, DSI Service Production
-- Grid'5000 Team 14:54, 26 Aug 2026 (CEST)
Some clusters under Debian 13 "Trixie" environment by default and migration maintenance
Dear users,
The default standard environment has changed to Debian 13 for some
selected clusters over the past few weeks.
Here they are:
This is a key step towards the widespread deployment of Debian13. Most
clusters will be switched to a Debian 13 default environment Wednesday 26 August 2026.
If you need to, all the variants images (min, nfs, big) are available
for deployment, see `kaenv3 -l debian%13%` on frontends to list them.
Remember that there is a significant change concerning the modules. See
the preview announce : https://www.grid5000.fr/w/News#Upcoming_changes_to_modules
Best regards,
For Abaca and Grid'5000/SLICES-FR,
Nicolas Perrin
-- Grid'5000 Team 16:00, 02 Jul 2026 (CEST)
Hello everyone,
Let's start with a quick TLDR, details on the rationale and implementation are available below: new modules will be available with the new standard environment, and are already live for testing (but not activated by default).
If you want to test them you need to run the following commands:
unset MODULEPATH
module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest /grid5000/spack/module-others
Now for more details: for the past months we have been working on updating the standard environment and the way we provide modules.
The current way uses Spack under the hood, and is tightly bound to the underlying operating system.
It's been proven to be quite a burden for the team, and therefore we are changing the way we manage modules to:
- use a solution oblivious to the Linux flavor; - have means to update software versions automatically, and a clear release cycle; - actually have something reproducible; - be able to automatically test our most sensitive modules when they change (on both OAR and SLURM clusters).
Under the hood we switched to Guix to manage them²; it will be totally transparent for you.
The upcoming modules are located in `/grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64`, and you can try them today!
In order to use them you need to perform the following commands¹:
unset MODULEPATH
module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest
The list of modules for the `latest` release is available here:
https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/software.
We know it's missing a few software compared to the current modules, we've tracked them here.
These should be available shortly, at least before we actually switch the default modules.
We intend to have a release at least every 4 months, providing updates to our software catalog.
If software needs to be added/updated we may of course perform a release.
We also intend to keep the past 5 releases directly available so that you may go back to use a previous release if needed. Should you ever really need to, the admin team (or even y...
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