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Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.

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, 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.

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 2025-07-09 20:09): 3 current events, 5 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2777 overall):

Diego Amaya-Ramirez, Romain Lhotte, Cedric Usureau, Magali Devriese, Malika Smaïl-Tabbone, et al.. HLA-EpiCheck : A B-cell epitope prediction tool on HLA antigens using molecular dynamics simulation data. ISMB-ECCB 2023 - Intelligent System in Molecular Biology and European Conference on Computational Biology merged event, Jul 2023, Lyon, France. 2023. hal-04405086 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
Pierre Bouvier. Systèmes concurrents hiérarchiques : équivalence, analyse et structuration. Calcul parallèle, distribué et partagé cs.DC. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2023. Français. NNT : 2023GRALM045. tel-04412686 view on HAL pdf
Chih-Kai Huang. Scalability of public geo-distributed fog computing federations. Other cs.OH. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS055. tel-04910860v2 view on HAL pdf
Shashikant Ilager, Daniel Balouek, Sidi Mohammed Kaddour, Ivona Brandic. Proteus: Towards Intent-driven Automated Resource Management Framework for Edge Sensor Nodes. FlexScience'24: Proceedings of the 14th Workshop on AI and Scientific Computing at Scale using Flexible Computing Infrastructures, Jun 2024, Pisa, Italy. pp.1 - 8, 10.1145/3659995.3660037. hal-04775138 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

SLICES-FR School 2025

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.

Cluster "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)

Cluster "hydra" is now in the default queue in Lyon

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

As a reminder, Hydra is a cluster composed of 4 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper servers[2].

Each node features:

1 Nvidia Grace ARM64 CPU with 72 cores (Neoverse-V2)

1 Nvidia Hopper GPU

512GB LPDDR5 memory

96GB HBM memory

1x1To SSD NVME + 1x1.92To SCSI disk

Due to its bleeding-edge hardware, the usual Grid'5000 environments are not supported by default for this cluster.

(Hydra requires system environments featuring a Linux kernel >= 6.6). The default system on the hydra nodes is based on Debian 11, but **does not provide functional GPUs**. However, users may deploy the ubuntugh2404-arm64-big environment, which is similar to the official Nvidia image provided for this machine and provides GPU support.

To submit a job on this cluster, the following command may be used:

oarsub -t exotic -p hydra

This cluster is funded by INRIA and by Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme with ENS Lyon support.

[1] Hydra is the largest of the modern constellations according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(constellation)

[2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-hopper-superchip-architecture-in-depth/

-- Grid'5000 Team 16:42, 12 June 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "estats" (Jetson nodes in Toulouse) is now kavlan capable

The network topology of the estats Jetson nodes can now be configured, just like for other clusters.

More info in the Network reconfiguration tutorial.

-- Grid'5000 Team 18:25, 21 May 2025 (CEST)

Grid'5000 sites

Current 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