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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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:

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 2025-12-06 15:51): 7 current events, 5 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2925 overall):

Chih-Kai Huang. Scalability of public geo-distributed fog computing federations. Other cs.OH. Université de Rennes, 2024. English. NNT : 2024URENS055. tel-04910860v2 view on HAL pdf
Nicolas Hubert, Pierre Monnin, Armelle Brun, Davy Monticolo. Sem@K: Is my knowledge graph embedding model semantic-aware?. Semantic Web – Interoperability, Usability, Applicability, 2023, 14 (6), pp.1273-1309. 10.3233/SW-233508. hal-04344975 view on HAL pdf
Cherif Latreche, Nikos Parlavantzas, Hector A Duran-Limon. FoRLess: A Deep Reinforcement Learning-based approach for FaaS Placement in Fog. UCC 2024 - 17th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing, Dec 2024, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. pp.1-9. hal-04791252 view on HAL pdf
Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Méthodologies de calcul d'empreinte carbone sur une plateforme de calcul : exemple du site Grid'5000 de Rennes. JRES 2024 - Journées réseaux de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Renater, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-14. hal-04893984 view on HAL pdf
Sorina Camarasu-Pop. Computational Reproducibility. 3rd cycle. 12th SLEIGHT Science Event, Saint Etienne (FR), France. 2024. hal-04649287 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

End 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)

Ecotaxe 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)

Some changes on the hardware configuration of Grenoble nodes

We recently did some hardware changes on clusters yeti, troll and dahu.

The changes are as follows:

yeti :

Following a malfunction of the two NVMe disks on yeti-3, an NVMe disk from yeti-1 has been transferred to yeti-3 to ensure that we have at least one functional NVMe disk per yeti node. New NVMe configuration of the nodes:

yeti-[1,3]: 1× NVMe
yeti-[2,4]: 2× NVMe

troll :

Due to experimentation needs, the steering committee agreed to change the hardware configuration of the troll cluster, replacing the Omnipath HPC network interconnect (interconnecting troll to yeti and dahu) by the Infiniband HPC network interconnect already available for the drac cluster.

dahu :

A few nodes of the dahu cluster recently encountered a recurrent problem with their OPA interfaces. Instead of fully retiring those nodes, we chose to disable their OPA interfaces.

This change means that if you want to reserve a dahu node with OPA, you must specify it in your oarsub request. For example:

oarsub -I -p "dahu and opa_count > 0"

The nodes that have been modified are dahu-18, dahu-26 and dahu-30. More nodes may be added to this list in the future.

-- Grid'5000 Team 14:50, 24 November 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "clervaux" is now in the default queue in Luxembourg

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

Clervaux is a cluster composed of 48 CPU nodes.

Each node features:

2x CPU Intel Xeon E5-2680 v4 (14 cores/CPU, 2 threads/cores)

128 GiB RAM

1x 120GB SSD SATA disk

This cluster was funded by the University of Luxembourg.

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

-- Grid'5000 Team 10:50, 21 October 2025 (CEST)

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

INRIA

CNRS

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