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 Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of SLICES-FR, the French node of SLICES-RI, Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.
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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:
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Random pick of publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2953 overall):
- Mathis Guckert, Hélène Le Cadre, Jean Le Hénaff. A Generalized Potential Game Approach of UAV Swarm Coordination for Hidden Target Localization. IEEE Control Systems Letters, In press. hal-05252199v3 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
- Angelo Rodio, Giovanni Neglia, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson. A Unified Convergence Analysis for Semi-Decentralized Learning: Sampled-to-Sampled vs. Sampled-to-All Communication. AAAI-26 - 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan 2026, Singapore, Singapore. hal-05423080 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
- Mathieu Bacou. FaaSLoad: Fine-Grained Performance and Resource Measurement for Function-As-a-Service. OPODIS 2024 - 28th International Conference on Principles of Distributed Systems, Dec 2024, Lucca, Italy. pp.22:1-22:21, 10.4230/LIPIcs.OPODIS.2024.22. hal-04886267 view on HAL pdf
Latest news
Changes to VS Code and AI Extensions Usage on Frontend
Recently, we have observed a critical increase in resource consumption (CPU and memory) on these nodes. This is primarily caused by VS Code Server (or similar) instances and associated AI-assisted coding extensions (such as Copilot, Tabnine, or local LLM agents) running directly on the frontend.
As a reminder, frontends are strictly dedicated to lightweight tasks: code editing, file management, and job submission. Running heavy background processes or AI agents on these shared machines degrades performance for the entire community and risks crashing the machines. Frontend are not sized for heavy code/system compilation/build either. Heavy tasks must be run on reserved nodes.
What is changing:
- ban on frontend: running VS Code Server (or similar), AI extensions, or any background development agents directly on the frontend will shortly be prohibited. - automated cleanup: we will actively monitor these nodes. Any unauthorized, resource-intensive processes or persistent VS Code servers found running on the login nodes will be terminated without prior warning.
How to continue using VS Code and AI tools?:
We fully understand that these tools could be essential for your work. Therefore, this usage is completely permitted and supported on the compute nodes.
To use VS Code and your AI agents properly, you must schedule an interactive session via the batch scheduler (OAR). You can do this by:
- Requesting an interactive allocation using oarsub -I.
- Tunneling your VS Code Remote-SSH connection directly to the allocated compute node instead of the frontend
This ensures you have dedicated resources for your AI tools without impacting other users.
-- Grid'5000 Team 16:00, 15 Jun 2026 (CEST)
End of support for Rocky8/9 and ubuntu2004
Support for the Rocky8/9 and Ubuntu2004 kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.
The last version of the Rocky8 environments (version 2024071119), Rocky9 environments (version 2024071119), Ubuntu2004 environments (version 2025031116) 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 09:40, 10 May 2026 (CEST)
Cluster Chicoree is now in default queue at Lille
We are pleased to announce that the Chicoree [1] cluster is now available in the default queue.
Chicoree is a cluster composed of 1 Proliant DL380a Gen12 node, featuring:
This cluster was funded by the CPER CornelIA.
This cluster is tagged as "exotic", so the `-t exotic` option must be provided to oarsub to select chicoree.
[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Lille:Hardware#chicoree
Best regards, Grid'5000 Technical Team
-- Grid'5000 Team 09:30, 04 June 2026 (CEST)
Cluster 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:
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)
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