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Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.

Grid'5000

Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing, including Cloud, HPC, Big Data and AI.

Key features:

  • provides access to a large amount of resources: 15000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: PMEM, 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.


Published documents and presentations:

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 2026-03-24 16:50): 6 current events, 2 planned (details)


Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2938 overall):

  • Pierre Neyron. R’n’R building of an experimentation platform for the Edge. Journée Datamove 2024, Jun 2024, Chichillianne, France. pp.1-12. hal-04604573 view on HAL pdf
  • Hugo Thomas, Guillaume Gravier, Pascale Sébillot. Recherche de relation à partir d’un seul exemple fondée sur un modèle N-way K-shot : une histoire de distracteurs. 35èmes Journées d'Études sur la Parole (JEP 2024) 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles (TALN 2024) 26ème Rencontre des Étudiants Chercheurs en Informatique pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues (RECITAL 2024), Jul 2024, Toulouse, France. pp.157-168. hal-04623015 view on HAL pdf
  • Bruno Lévy, Nicolas Ray, Quentin Merigot, Hugo Leclerc. Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams. Journal of Computational Physics, 2025, pp.114374. 10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114374. hal-05253830 view on HAL pdf
  • Daniel Balouek. Performance-cost trade-offs in service orchestration for edge computing. SSDBM 2024 - 36th International Conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management, Edge Computing; Resource Management; Computing Continuum; Trade-offs; Urgent Computing, Jul 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-4, 10.1145/3676288.3676307. hal-04775133 view on HAL pdf
  • Dorian Goepp, Samuel Brun, Quentin Guilloteau, Olivier Richard. Un prototype de cache de métadonnées pour le passage à l'échelle de NixOS-Compose. COMPAS 2024 - Conférence francophone d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système, Jul 2024, Nantes, France. pp.1-8. hal-04632952 view on HAL pdf


Latest news

Rss.svgCluster Sasquatch is now in default queue at Grenoble

We are pleased to announce that the Sasquatch [1] cluster is now available in the default queue.

Sasquatch is a cluster composed of 2 HPE RL300 nodes, each featuring:

  • 1x ARM64 CPU Neoverse-N1 (Ares) 80 cores/CPU (Ampere altra) [2]
  • 1 TiB RAM
  • 1x 1.6 TB NVMe
  • 2x 25Gbps network interface (first NIC wired at 25Gbps and second NIC at 10Gbps)

    • This cluster was funded by the PEPR IA.

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Grenoble:Hardware#sasquatch

    [2] https://amperecomputing.com/briefs/ampere-altra-family-product-brief

    Best regards, Grid'5000 Technical Team

    -- Grid'5000 Team 10:15, 11 February 2026 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster Spirou is now in default queue at Louvain

    We are pleased to announce that the Spirou[1] cluster of the newly installed Louvain site is now available in the default queue.

    Spirou is a cluster composed of 8 Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V2 nodes, each featuring:

  • 2x CPU Intel Xeon Gold 5318Y (Ice Lake-SP)24 cores/CPU
  • 256 GiB RAM
  • 1x 4.0 TB HDD SATA Lenovo
  • 2x 100Gbps Mellanox network interface

    • Be aware that we noticed I/Os inconsistencies on this cluster.

    We advise users to take this into account when performing experimentations on the cluster. See the following bug for more information: https://intranet.grid5000.fr/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16938


    This cluster was funded by the Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique – FNRS (F.R.S.–FNRS), and its operation is supported by F.R.S.–FNRS and the Wallonia region (SPW).

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Louvain:Hardware#spirou

    Best regards,

    Grid'5000 Technical Team

    -- Grid'5000 Team 10:24, 12 January 2026 (CEST)

    Rss.svgEnd of support for centOS7/8 and centOSStream8 environments

    Support for the centOS7/8 and centOSStream8 kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

    The last version of the centOS7 environments (version 2024071117), centOS8 environments (version 2024071119), centOSStream8 environments (version 2024070316) will remain available on /grid5000. Older versions can still be accessed in the archive directory (see /grid5000/README.unmaintained-envs for more information).

    -- Grid'5000 Team 08:44, 4 December 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgEcotaxe cluster is now in default queue at Nantes

    We are pleased to announce that the ecotaxe cluster of Nantes is now available in the default queue.

    As a reminder, ecotaxe is a cluster composed of 2 HPE ProLiant DL385 Gen10 Plus v2 servers[1].

    Each node features:

  • 2 AMD EPYC 7453 (Zen 3), 28 cores/CPU
  • 3 Nvidia A100 80GB GPU
  • 256 GB memory
  • 1x 1.92 To SSD + 2x 7.68 To SSD
  • 100 Gb/s Intel Ethernet adapter [2].

    • To submit a job on this cluster, the following command may be used:

    oarsub -t exotic -p ecotaxe

    This cluster is co-funded by Région Pays de la Loire, FEDER and REACT EU via the CPER SAMURAI [3].

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Nantes:Hardware#ecotaxe

    [2] The observed throughput depends on multiple parameters such as the workload, the number of streams, ... [3] https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/fr/recherche-innovation/collaborer/projet/samurai

    -- Grid'5000 Team 14:10, 02 December 2025 (CET)

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    Grid'5000 sites

    Current funding

    INRIA

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    CNRS

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    Universities

    IMT Atlantique
    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

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