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Grid'5000

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.

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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 2025-07-11 13:23): 4 current events, 5 planned (details)

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2779 overall):

Volodia Parol-Guarino, Nikos Parlavantzas. GIRAFF: Reverse Auction-based Placement for Fog Functions. WoSC 2023 - 9th International Workshop on Serverless Computing, Dec 2023, Bologna, Italy. pp.53-58, 10.1145/3631295.3631402. hal-04384516 view on HAL pdf
Félix Gaschi, Xavier Fontaine, Parisa Rastin, Yannick Toussaint. Multilingual Clinical NER: Translation or Cross-lingual Transfer?. 5th Clinical Natural Language Processing Workshop, Jul 2023, Toronto, Canada. pp.289-311, 10.18653/v1/2023.clinicalnlp-1.34. hal-04193182 view on HAL pdf
Eva Giboulot, Teddy Furon. WaterMax: breaking the LLM watermark detectability-robustness-quality trade-off. NeurIPS 2024 - 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, Dec 2024, Vancouver, Canada. pp.1-34. hal-04766606 view on HAL pdf
Dorian Goepp, Fernando Ayats Llamas, Olivier Richard, Quentin Guilloteau. ACM REP24 Tutorial: Reproducible distributed environments with NixOS Compose. 2024, pp.1-3. hal-04613983 view on HAL pdf
Quentin Guilloteau, Sophie Cerf, Raphaël Bleuse, Bogdan Robu, Eric Rutten. Under Control: A Control Theory Introduction for Computer Scientists. ACSOS 2024 - 5th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS 2024), Sep 2024, Aahrus, Denmark. pp.1-10. hal-04666859 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

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