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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).

Current status (at 2026-03-06 21:51): 6 current events, 1 planned (details)

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2937 overall):

Houssam Elbouanani, Chadi Barakat, Walid Dabbous, Thierry Turletti. Fidelity-aware Large-scale Distributed Network Emulation. Computer Networks, 2024, 10.1016/j.comnet.2024.110531. hal-04591699 view on HAL pdf
Mathis Valli, Alexandru Costan, Cédric Tedeschi, Loïc Cudennec. Towards Efficient Learning on the Computing Continuum: Advancing Dynamic Adaptation of Federated Learning. FlexScience 2024 - 14th Workshop on AI and Scientific Computing at Scale using Flexible Computing Infrastructures, Jun 2024, Pisa, Italy. pp.42-49, 10.1145/3659995.3660042. hal-04698619v2 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
Roblex Nana Tchakoute, Claude Tadonki, Petr Dokladal, Petr Dokladal, Youssef Mesri. A Flexible Operational Framework for Energy Profiling of Programs. 2024 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Workshops (SBAC-PADW), Nov 2024, Hilo, United States. pp.12-22, 10.1109/SBAC-PADW64858.2024.00014. hal-04819054 view on HAL pdf
Wedan Emmanuel Gnibga, Andrew A Chien, Anne Blavette, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. FlexCoolDC: Datacenter Cooling Flexibility for Harmonizing Water, Energy, Carbon, and Cost Trade-offs. e-Energy 2024 - 15th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, Jun 2024, Singapore, Singapore. pp.108-122, 10.1145/3632775.3661936. hal-04581701 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

Regional councils

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