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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 2026-06-24 21:08): 8 current events, 4 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2953 overall):

Adrien Schoen, Gregory Blanc, Pierre-François Gimenez, Yufei Han, Frédéric Majorczyk, et al.. A tale of two methods: unveiling the limitations of GAN and the rise of bayesian networks for synthetic network traffic generation. 2024 IEEE European Symposium on Security and Privacy Workshops (EuroS&PW), Jul 2024, Vienna, Austria. pp.273-286, 10.1109/EuroSPW61312.2024.00036. hal-04871298 view on HAL pdf
Jérémie Rodez, Patricia Stolf, Thierry Monteil. Placement of Distributed Machine Learning Services for AI- and Smart Grid-Enabled IoT Platforms. 2026. hal-05279358 view on HAL pdf
Sorina Camarasu-Pop. Computational Reproducibility. 3rd cycle. 12th SLEIGHT Science Event, Saint Etienne (FR), France. 2024. hal-04649287 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
Justin Dachille, Aurora Rossi, Sunil Kumar Maurya, Frederik Mallman-Trenn, Xin Liu, et al.. BRAVA-GNN: Betweenness Ranking Approximation Via Degree MAss Inspired Graph Neural Network. 2026. hal-05502800 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