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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. Recently published documents: Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014 Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board meeting (2014) 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 2925 overall):

• Marc Jourdan, Rémy Degenne, Emilie Kaufmann. An ε-Best-Arm Identification Algorithm for Fixed-Confidence and Beyond. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), Dec 2023, New Orleans, United States. hal-04306214 view on HAL pdf
• François Lemaire, Louis Roussel. Parameter Estimation using Integral Equations. Maple Transactions, 2024, Proceedings of the Maple Conference 2023, 4 (1), 10.5206/mt.v4i1.17126. hal-04560846v2 view on HAL pdf
• Baptiste Jonglez, Matthieu Simonin, Jolan Philippe, Sidi Mohammed Kaddour. Multi-provider capabilities in EnOSlib: driving distributed system experiments on the edge-to-cloud continuum. DAIS 2025: 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.25-42, 10.1007/978-3-031-95728-4_2. hal-05052776 view on HAL pdf
• Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Méthodologies de calcul d'empreinte carbone sur une plateforme de calcul : exemple du site Grid'5000 de Rennes. JRES 2024 - Journées réseaux de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Renater, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-14. hal-04893984 view on HAL pdf
• Cédric Prigent, Alexandru Costan, Gabriel Antoniu, Loïc Cudennec. Enabling Federated Learning across the Computing Continuum: Systems, Challenges and Future Directions. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2024, 160, pp.767-783. 10.1016/j.future.2024.06.043. hal-04659211 view on HAL pdf

Current status (at 2025-12-01 04:29): 5 current events, 6 planned (details)

Latest news

Grid'5000 winter school now finished

The Grid'5000 spring school took place between February 2nd, 2016 and February 5th, 2016 in Grenoblen. Two awards were given for presentation entries:

Best presentation award to Houssem-Eddine Chihoub and Christine Collet for their work on A scalability comparaison study of smart meter data management approaches (slides)

Most promising experiment to Anna Giannakou for her work Towards Self Adaptable Security Monitoring in IaaS Clouds '(https://www.grid5000.fr/school2016/g5kws16_slides/grid5k-winterschool2016.pptx slides])

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.

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Grid'5000 sites

Grenoble Lille Luxembourg Lyon

Nancy Nantes Reims Rennes

Sophia-Antipolis Toulouse

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