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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.

Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)

Recently published documents and presentations:

Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019)
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)

Older documents:

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 2026-10-10 12:51): 5 current events, 4 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3009 overall):

Théophile Dubuc. Détection d'anomalies de latence dans les systèmes distribués avec eBPF. Système d'exploitation cs.OS. Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2024. Français. NNT : 2024ENSL0109. tel-05064342 view on HAL pdf
Georges da Costa, Amina Guermouche. Measurement methods sheet, WG6 Exa-Soft. Université de Toulouse; Université de bordeaux. 2025. hal-05272179 view on HAL pdf
Sayf Halmi, Aurora Rossi, Frédéric Giroire, Nicolas Nisse, Michele Pezzoni. La vie risquée mais enrichissante d'un doctorant interdisciplinaire : accrochez-vous, une seule publication suffit !. Universite Cote d'Azur. 2026. hal-05518683 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 workshop of Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing, May 2026, Julich, Germany. 2026. hal-05662829 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

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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