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Grid'5000

Grid'5000 is a large-scale and versatile 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.

Key features:

provides access to a large amount of resources: 1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI
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.

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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).

Latest publications from Grid'5000 users

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2921 overall):

Lucian Trestioreanu, Flaviene Scheidt, Wazen M. Shbair, Jerome Francois, Damien Magoni, et al.. To Squelch or not to Squelch: Enabling Improved Message Dissemination on the XRP Ledger. 37th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024), May 2024, Séoul, South Korea. hal-04621124 view on HAL pdf
Daniel Rosendo, Marta Mattoso, Alexandru Costan, Renan Souza, Débora Pina, et al.. ProvLight: Efficient Workflow Provenance Capture on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. Cluster 2023 - IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing, Oct 2023, Santa Fe, New Mexico, United States. pp.1-13. hal-04161546 view on HAL pdf
Gaël Vila, Emmanuel Medernach, Inés Gonzalez, Axel Bonnet, Yohan Chatelain, et al.. The Impact of Hardware Variability on Applications Packaged with Docker and Guix: a Case Study in Neuroimaging. ACM REP'24, ACM, Jun 2024, Rennes, France. pp.75-84, 10.1145/3641525.3663626. hal-04480308v2 view on HAL pdf
Thomas Firmin, Pierre Boulet, El-Ghazali Talbi. Parallel Hyperparameter Optimization Of Spiking Neural Networks. 2023. hal-04464394 view on HAL pdf
Chih-Kai Huang, Guillaume Pierre. UnBound: Multi-Tenancy Management in Scalable Fog Meta-Federations. UCC 2024 - 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dec 2024, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. pp.1-11. hal-04760398 view on HAL pdf

Current status (at 2025-09-14 14:18): 4 current events, 3 planned (details)

Latest news

10 year later, the Grid'5000 school returns to Grenoble

10 year after the first edition of the Grid'5000 school, we invite the Grid'5000 community to take part in the Grid'5000 winter School 2016, February 2-5, 2016.

Grid'5000 co-organizing the SUCCES 2015 event

These will take place November 5-6, 2015, in Paris. Dedicated to users of grid, cloud or regional HPC centers, the SUCCES 2015 days are organised by France Grilles, Grid'5000, Groupe Calcul and GDR ASR.

Two systems and network administrator positions available

Grid'5000 is recruiting two systems and network administrators, in either Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Nancy, or Rennes. More details.

Grid'5000 tutorial days in Lille

We are happy to let you known that tutorials around Grid'5000 will be organized in Lille on November 20th, 2014, with a few seats available for people outside Lille. All information on the dedicated web page.

Grid'5000 spring school now finished

The Grid'5000 spring school took place between June 16th, 2014 and June 19th, 2014 in Lyon. Three awards were given for presentation or challenge entries (the challenge entries ended as a tie):

Best presentation award to Miguel Liroz Gistau, Reza Akbarinia and Patrick Valduriez

Best challenge entry to Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine and Lucas Nussbaum

Best challenge entry to Jonathan Pastor and Laurent Pouilloux

Grid'5000 sites

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
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

Regional councils

Aquitaine
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Nord Pas de Calais
Lorraine