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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.

Recently published documents and presentations:

Presentation of Grid'5000 during the 1st Grid'5000-FIT school (April 2018)
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)
Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. See an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)

Older documents:

https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (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).

Current status (at 2026-08-01 15:26): 6 current events, 5 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2998 overall):

Romain Pereira, Thierry Gautier, Adrien Roussel, Patrick Carribault. Measuring and Interpreting Dependent Task-based Applications Performances. 15th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics - PPAM 2024, Sep 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic. pp.227-241. hal-04767262 view on HAL pdf
Sweta Suresh, Maxime Guillaud. Belief Propagation Decoding of Tensor-Based Modulation for Unsourced Random Access. IZS 2026 - International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication, Feb 2026, Zurich, Switzerland. hal-05451488 view on HAL pdf
Shadi Ibrahim, Jad Darrous. Erasure Coding Aware Block Placement for Data-Intensive Applications. CHEOPS 2025 - 5th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems, Mar 2025, Rotterdam Netherlands, Netherlands. pp.15-22, 10.1145/3719330.3721229. hal-05016741 view on HAL pdf
Théophile Bastian. Towards automatic characterization of microarchitectural behaviour form performance modeling of computing kernels : an analysis of the Cortex A72 and Intel microarchitectures. Hardware Architecture cs.AR. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2024. English. NNT : 2024GRALM072. tel-05116111 view on HAL pdf
Alix Tremodeux, Guillaume Pallez, Erven Rohou. How to determine a machine's true age in an HPC system?. JLESC 2026 -18th JLESC workshop, May 2026, Julich, Germany. hal-05662829 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

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