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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 and 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.

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:

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 2025-07-15 21:57): 5 current events, 4 planned (details)


Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2780 overall):

  • Louis-Claude Canon, Damien Landré, Laurent Philippe, Jean-Marc Pierson, Paul Renaud-Goud. Assessing Power Needs to Run a Workload with Quality of Service on Green Datacenters. 29th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (EURO-PAR 2023), Aug 2023, Limassol, Cyprus. pp.229--242, 10.1007/978-3-031-39698-4_16. hal-04257315 view on HAL pdf
  • Pierre-Etienne Polet. Portage des chaînes de traitement sonar sur architecture hétérogène : conception et évaluation d'un environnement de programmation basé sur les tâches moldables. Informatique cs. Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2024. Français. NNT : 2024ENSL0004. tel-04633261 view on HAL pdf
  • Quentin Guilloteau, Florina M Ciorba, Millian Poquet, Dorian Goepp, Olivier Richard. Longevity of Artifacts in Leading Parallel and Distributed Systems Conferences: a Review of the State of the Practice in 2023. REP 2024 - ACM Conference on Reproducibility and Replicability, ACM, Jun 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-14, 10.1145/3641525.3663631. hal-04562691 view on HAL pdf
  • Thomas Firmin, Pierre Boulet, El-Ghazali Talbi. Parallel Hyperparameter Optimization Of Spiking Neural Networks. 2023. hal-04464394 view on HAL pdf
  • Emile Cadorel, Dimitri Saingre. A Protocol to Assess the Accuracy of Process-Level Power Models. Cluster 2024, IEEE, Sep 2024, Kobe, Japan. hal-04720926 view on HAL pdf


Latest news

Rss.svgSLICES-FR School 2025

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The first SLICES-FR School is organized from July 7th to 11th in Lyon.

This free event, co-organized with the PEPR Cloud and Networks of the Future, brings together researchers, engineers and professionals to explore advances in distributed computing, edge computing, reprogrammable networks and the IoT.

Rss.svgCluster "vianden" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

Vianden is a cluster of a single node with 8 MI300X AMD GPUs.

The node features:

  • 2x CPU Intel Xeon Platinum 8470 (52 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)
  • 8x AMD Instinct MI300X (192 GiB each)
  • 2TiB RAM
  • 1x 3.2TB NVME disk
  • The AMD MI300X GPUs are not supported by Grid'5000 default system (Debian 11). However, one can easily unlock full GPU functionality by deploying the ubuntu2404-rocm environment:

    fluxembourg$ oarsub -t exotic -t deploy -p vianden -I

    fluxembourg$ kadeploy3 -m vianden-1 ubuntu2404-rocm

    More information in the Exotic page.

    This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

    [1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Luxembourg:Hardware#vianden

    -- Grid'5000 Team 11:30, 27 June 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster "hydra" is now in the default queue in Lyon

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

    As a reminder, Hydra is a cluster composed of 4 NVIDIA Grace-Hopper servers[2].

    Each node features:

  • 1 Nvidia Grace ARM64 CPU with 72 cores (Neoverse-V2)
  • 1 Nvidia Hopper GPU
  • 512GB LPDDR5 memory
  • 96GB HBM memory
  • 1x1To SSD NVME + 1x1.92To SCSI disk
  • Due to its bleeding-edge hardware, the usual Grid'5000 environments are not supported by default for this cluster.

    (Hydra requires system environments featuring a Linux kernel >= 6.6). The default system on the hydra nodes is based on Debian 11, but **does not provide functional GPUs**. However, users may deploy the ubuntugh2404-arm64-big environment, which is similar to the official Nvidia image provided for this machine and provides GPU support.

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

    oarsub -t exotic -p hydra

    This cluster is funded by INRIA and by Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallélisme with ENS Lyon support.

    [1] Hydra is the largest of the modern constellations according to Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(constellation)

    [2] https://developer.nvidia.com/blog/nvidia-grace-hopper-superchip-architecture-in-depth/

    -- Grid'5000 Team 16:42, 12 June 2025 (CEST)

    Rss.svgCluster "estats" (Jetson nodes in Toulouse) is now kavlan capable

    The network topology of the estats Jetson nodes can now be configured, just like for other clusters.

    More info in the Network reconfiguration tutorial.

    -- Grid'5000 Team 18:25, 21 May 2025 (CEST)


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    Grid'5000 sites

    Current funding

    As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 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