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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: 12000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: GPU, SSD, NVMe, 10G and 25G Ethernet, Infiniband, Omni-Path
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 (April 2019)
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. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018) or visit the SILECS website.

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 2026-06-30 00:29): 6 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2954 overall):

Donatien Schmitz, Guillaume Rosinosky, Etienne Rivière. Justin: Hybrid CPU/Memory Elastic Scaling for Distributed Stream Processing ⋆. DAIS 2025 - 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Daniel Balouek; Ibéria Medeiros, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.1-17. hal-05081993 view on HAL pdf
Cédric Prigent, Melvin Chelli, Alexandru Costan, Loïc Cudennec, René Schubotz, et al.. Efficient Resource-Constrained Federated Learning Clustering with Local Data Compression on the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. HiPC 2024 - 31st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, Dec 2024, Bengaluru (Bangalore), India. pp.1-11, 10.1109/HiPC62374.2024.00033. hal-04779813 view on HAL pdf
Mathis Guckert, Hélène Le Cadre, Jean Le Hénaff. A Generalized Potential Game Approach of UAV Swarm Coordination for Hidden Target Localization. IEEE Control Systems Letters, In press. hal-05252199v3 view on HAL pdf
Angelo Rodio, Giovanni Neglia, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson. A Unified Convergence Analysis for Semi-Decentralized Learning: Sampled-to-Sampled vs. Sampled-to-All Communication. AAAI-26 - 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan 2026, Singapore, Singapore. hal-05423080 view on HAL pdf
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

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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
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Hauts de France
Lorraine