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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).

Current status (at 2026-01-31 06:20): 4 current events, 3 planned (details)

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2932 overall):

Cassandre Vey, Adrien van den Bossche, Réjane Dalcé, Georges da Costa, Olivier Negro, et al.. Experimenting IoT-Edge-Cloud- HPC Continuum on Existing Platforms. 2025 IEEE 25th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing Workshops (CCGridW), IEEE, May 2025, Tromsø Norway, Norway. 10.1109/CCGridW65158.2025.00026. hal-05147272 view on HAL pdf
Romaric Pegdwende Nikiema, Marcello Traiola, Angeliki Kritikakou. Impact of Compiler Optimizations on the Reliability of a RISC-V-based Core. DFT 2024 - 37th IEEE International Symposium on Defect and Fault Tolerance in VLSI and Nanotechnology Systems, Oct 2024, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom. pp.1-1. hal-04731794 view on HAL pdf
Reda Khoufache, Mustapha Lebbah, Hanene Azzag, Etienne Goffinet, Djamel Bouchaffra. Distributed Collapsed Gibbs Sampler for Dirichlet Process Mixture Models in Federated Learning. SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM24), Apr 2024, Houston, Texas, United States. pp.815 - 823, 10.1137/1.9781611978032.93. hal-04457596 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
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

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Current funding

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

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

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

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