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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000 for the 2008-2012 period An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ADT ALADDIN-G5K initiative.

Latest news Grid'5000 under extension to Porto Alegre, Brazil July 21st, 2009, INRIA and UFRGS signed a Memorandum of Understanding marking the cooperation of the two institutes towards the extension of the Grid'5000 platform to Brazil. According to the terms of this memo, UFRGS will contribute to Grid'5000 by operating a local site in Porto Alegre and INRIA will fully integrate this local site into Grid'5000 in order to gain an international scale. Researchers from both partners will therefore gain access to one of the major scientific instruments for the study of large-scale parallel and distributed problems in computer science. With this cooperation, Grid'5000 gives its users the possibility to study the effects of inter-continental networks links on these problems. For Grid'5000 users, access to the new site during the integration phase is possible using portoalegre.grenoble as name of the new site Latest updated experiment descriptions {{#experiments:3}} Latest updated publications Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall): Mathieu Bacou. FaaSLoad: Fine-Grained Performance and Resource Measurement for Function-As-a-Service. OPODIS 2024 - 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Dec 2024, Lucca, Italy. pp.22:1-22:21, 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.22. hal-04886267 view on HAL pdf François Lemaire, Louis Roussel. A Parametric Differential System Admitting an Integral Input-Output Equation with a Fraction. Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing (CASC) 28th International Workshop, Aug 2026, Bath (UK), United Kingdom. hal-05645783 view on HAL pdf Natalia Tomashenko, Emmanuel Vincent, Marc Tommasi. Exploiting Context-dependent Duration Features for Voice Anonymization Attack Systems. Interspeech 2025, Aug 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands. hal-05099074 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-05608091 view on HAL pdf Danilo Carastan-Santos, Georges da Costa, Igor Fontana de Nardin, Millian Poquet, Krzysztof Rzadca, et al.. Scheduling with lightweight predictions in power-constrained HPC platforms. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 2025, pp.1-12. 10.1109/TPDS.2025.3586723. hal-04747713v3 view on HAL pdf ALADDIN-AWARD Second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum During Grid'5000 Spring School 2009, Lucas Nussbaum was given the second Grid'5000 award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ALADDIN / Grid'5000. Photo of people present at the Grid'5000 Spring School 2009 Grid'5000 spring school now finished The Grid'5000 spring school took place between April 7, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. The presentation program is updated with the slides of the presentations as they come in. Most practical sessions are available to people that did not take part during the school. Here and there (pdf) you can read local press coverage. In addition to the second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum for his outsanding contribution to Grid'5000, 3 awards were given for presentation made during the event : Best presentation award to Anne-Cécile Orgerie Best Large Scale Experiment to Benjamin Depardon Most Promising Experiment to Jean-Noël Quintin read more news

Grid'5000 at a glance

Grid'5000 sites

• Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 processors:

Sites:

Bordeaux Grenoble Lille

Lyon Nancy Orsay

Rennes Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

• The main purpose of this platform is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing.

Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers

• Grid'5000 is a research effort developping a large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research.

• 17 laboratories are involved, nation wide, in the objective of providing the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.

The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 local platform (at least one cluster per site), each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the RENATER Education and Research Network.

All clusters will be connected to Renater with a 10Gb/s link (or at least 1 Gb/s, when 10Gb/s is not available yet).

This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.

Rationale

The foundations of Grid'5000 have emerged from a thorough analysis and numerous discussions about methodologies used for scientific research in the Grid domain. A report presents the rationale for Grid'5000.

In addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for large scale testbeds where real life experimental conditions hold. The size of Grid'5000, in terms of number of sites and number of processors per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.

Current funding

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

INRIA	CNRS
Universities University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble University of Rennes 1, Rennes Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux University Lille 1, Lille Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon	Regional councils Bretagne Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur Nord Pas de Calais Lorraine