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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.
Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.

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:

20th anniversary commemoration (2023) → presentations video replay (French only)
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).

Most recent news

Debian 13 "Trixie" std environment is now the default environment on (almost) all nodes

Dear users,

We are pleased to announce that Debian 13 (Trixie) std environment is

now the default environment on most nodes. See `kaenv3...

Some clusters under Debian 13 "Trixie" environment by default and migration maintenance

Dear users,

The default standard environment has changed to Debian 13 for some

selected clusters over the past few weeks.

Here the...

Upcoming changes to modules

Hello everyone,

Let's start with a quick TLDR, details on the rationale and implementation are available below: new modules will be avail...

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 Serv...

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3007 overall):

Antoine Franchini, Stéphane Girard, Anne Dutfoy. Adaptive confidence intervals for extreme quantiles from heavy-tailed distributions. Statistics and Computing, 2026, 36, pp.175. 10.1007/s11222-026-10930-9. hal-05322341v3 view on HAL pdf
Arun Thangamani. Optimized code generation of parallel and polyhedral loop nests using MLIR. Computer Science cs. Université de Strasbourg, 2024. English. NNT : 2024STRAD058. tel-04718259v2 view on HAL pdf
Romain Fontaine, Christine Solnon. Experimental study of the impact of time window generation on solver performance for the TSPTW. ROADEF 2026 - 27ème congrès annuel de la Société Française de Recherche Opérationnelle et d'Aide à la Décision, Université de Tours, Feb 2026, Tours, France. hal-05712919 view on HAL pdf
François Lemaire, Louis Roussel. A Parametric Differential System Admitting an Integral Input-Output Equation with a Fraction. Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing (CASC) 28th International Workshop, Aug 2026, Bath (UK), United Kingdom. hal-05645783 view on HAL pdf
Thomas Morin, Nathalie Furmento, Abdou Guermouche, Samuel Thibault, Pierre-André Wacrenier. Longest-Path-Based Task Splitting for Homogeneous Platforms. PPAM 2026 - International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, Aug 2026, Poznan, Poland. hal-05666815 view on HAL pdf

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

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+<b>Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of [https://www.slices-fr.eu SLICES-FR], the French node of [https://www.slices-ri.eu SLICES-RI], Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.</b>
-= ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of '''Grid'5000''' =
+<br/>
-= for the 2008-2012 period =
+Content on this website is partly outdated. Technical information remains relevant.
-''An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems''
-Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by Inria, under the ''ADT ALADDIN-G5K''  initiative.
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-==Latest news==
+[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|300px|left||link=https://www.grid5000.fr]]
-=== Grid'5000 under extension to Porto Alegre, Brazil ===
+'''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.'''
-July 21st, 2009, INRIA and UFRGS signed a Memorandum of Understanding marking
-the cooperation of the two institutes towards the extension of the
-Grid'5000 platform to Brazil.
-According to the terms of this memo, UFRGS will contribute to Grid'5000
+Key features:
-by operating a local site in Porto Alegre and INRIA will fully
+* 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
-integrate this local site into Grid'5000 in order to gain an
+* '''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
-international scale. Researchers from both partners will therefore gain
+* '''advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption''', providing a deep understanding of experiments
-access to one of the major scientific instruments for the study of
+* '''designed to support Open Science and reproducible research''', with full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed
-large-scale parallel and distributed problems in computer science. With
+* '''a vibrant community''' of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team
-this cooperation, Grid'5000 gives its users the possibility to study the
-effects of inter-continental networks links on these problems.
-For Grid'5000 users, access to the new site during the integration phase
+<br>
-is possible using portoalegre.grenoble as name of the new site
+Read more about our [[Team|teams]], our [[Publications|publications]], and the [[Grid5000:UsagePolicy|usage policy]] of the testbed. Then [[Grid5000:Get_an_account|get an account]], and learn how to use the testbed with our [[Getting_Started|Getting Started tutorial]] and the rest of our [[:Category:Portal:User|Users portal]].
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-=== Latest updated experiment descriptions ===
-{{#experiments:3}}
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-=== Latest updated publications ===
-{{#publications:3}}
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-[[Image:Award_Lucas.png|left|84px|ALADDIN-AWARD]]
-=== Second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum ===
-During Grid'5000 Spring School 2009, Lucas Nussbaum was given the second Grid'5000 award, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to ALADDIN / Grid'5000.
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-[[Image:People_School_2009.jpeg|right|168px|Photo of people present at the Grid'5000 Spring School 2009]]
-=== [[Grid5000:School2009|Grid'5000 spring school]] now finished ===
-The Grid'5000 spring school took place between April 7, 2009 and April 10, 2009 in Nancy. The [[Grid5000:School2009_Program|presentation program]] is updated with the slides of the presentations as they come in. Most [[Grid5000:School2009_TPs|practical sessions]] are available to people that did not take part during the school. [https://www.grid5000.fr/school2009-slides/EstRepublicain20090410.jpg Here] and [http://www.republicain-lorrain.fr/fr/permalien/article/417844/Grilles-informatiques-les-specialistes-reunis.html there] ([https://www.grid5000.fr/school2009-slides/RepublicainLorrain.pdf pdf]) you can read local press coverage. In addition to the second Grid'5000 award given to Lucas Nussbaum for his outsanding contribution to Grid'5000, 3 awards were given for presentation made during the event :
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-[[Image:BestPresentationAward2009.png|252px|Best presentation award to Anne-Cécile Orgerie]]
-Best presentation award to Anne-Cécile Orgerie
+<br>
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+Published documents and presentations:
-[[Image:BestLargeScaleExperiment2009.png|252px|Best Large Scale Experiment to Benjamin Depardon]]
+* [https://www.inria.fr/fr/grid5000-20-ans-hpc-reseau-informatique 20th anniversary commemoration (2023)] → [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UD5-Y0vcmVI presentations video replay] (French only)
+* [[Media:Grid5000.pdf|Presentation of Grid'5000]] (April 2019)
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/images/Grid5000_science-advisory-board_report_2018.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)]
-Best Large Scale Experiment to Benjamin Depardon
+Older documents:
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+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
-[[Image:MostPromisingExperimentAward2009.png|252px|Most Promising Experiment to Jean-Noël Quintin]]
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/ScientificCommittee/SAB%20report%20final%20short.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014)]
-Most Promising Experiment to Jean-Noël Quintin
+<br>
-|-
+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|HEMERA]] (2010-2014).
+||
+'''Most recent news'''
+<rss max=4 item-max-length="150">https://www.grid5000.fr/rss/G5KNews.php</rss>
+<center>
+[[News|Read more news]]
+</center>
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-[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
+{{#status:0|0|0|http://bugzilla.grid5000.fr/status/upcoming.json}}
-|}
+== Random pick of publications ==
+{{#publications:}}
-<br>
+=== Grid'5000 sites===
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
+{|width="100%" cellspacing="3"
-[[Image:site_map.png|thumbnail|128px|right|Grid'5000 sites]]
-* '''Grid'5000''' project aims at building a '''highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform''' gathering '''9 sites''' geographically distributed in France featuring a total of 5000 processors:
-===Sites:===
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-* [[Bordeaux:Home|Bordeaux]]
 * [[Grenoble:Home|Grenoble]]
 * [[Lille:Home|Lille]]
+* [[Luxembourg:Home|Luxembourg]]
+* [[Louvain:Home|Louvain]]
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 * [[Lyon:Home|Lyon]]
 * [[Nancy:Home|Nancy]]
-* [[Orsay:Home|Orsay]]
+* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
+* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
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-* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
 * [[Sophia:Home|Sophia-Antipolis]]
+* [[Strasbourg:Home|Strasbourg]]
 * [[Toulouse:Home|Toulouse]]
 |-
 |}
-* The main purpose of this platform is to serve as an experimental testbed for research in Grid Computing.
+== Current funding ==
-* This project is one initiative of the [http://www.recherche.gouv.fr/recherche/fns/grid.htm French ACI Grid] incentive (see below: Funding Institutions) which provides a large part of Grid'5000 funding on behalf of the French Ministry of Research & Education.
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+|-
+| width="50%" bgcolor="#f5f5f5" valign="top" align="center" style="border:1px solid #cccccc;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;"|
+===INRIA===
-[[Image:Software layers.png|thumbnail|271px|left|Grid'5000 will allow Grid experiments France wide in all these software layers]]
+[[Image:Logo_INRIA.gif|300px|link=https://www.inria.fr]]
-* '''Grid'5000''' is a research effort developping a '''large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research'''.
+| width="50%" bgcolor="#f5f5f5" valign="top" align="center" style="border:1px solid #cccccc;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;"|
+===CNRS===
-* '''17 [[Grid5000:Laboratories|laboratories]]''' are involved, nation wide, in the objective of providing the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.
+[[Image:CNRS-filaire-Quadri.png|125px|link=https://www.cnrs.fr]]
+|-
+| width="50%" bgcolor="#f5f5f5" valign="top" align="center" style="border:1px solid #cccccc;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;"|
+===Universities===
-The current plans are to assemble a physical platform featuring 9 local platform (at least one cluster per site), each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the [http://www.renater.fr RENATER] Education and Research Network.
+IMT Atlantique<br/>
+Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP<br/>
-All clusters will be connected to Renater with a 10Gb/s link (or at least 1 Gb/s, when 10Gb/s is not available yet).
+Université Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
+Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse<br/>
+Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux<br/>
+Université Lille 1, Lille<br/>
-This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.
+École Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
+| width="50%" bgcolor="#f5f5f5" valign="top" align="center" style="border:1px solid #cccccc;padding:1em;padding-top:0.5em;"|
+===Regional councils===
+Aquitaine<br/>
-==Rationale==
+Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes<br/>
-'''The foundations of Grid'5000''' have emerged from a thorough analysis and numerous discussions about methodologies used for scientific research in the Grid domain. A report presents the [http://www-sop.inria.fr/aci/grid/public/Library/rapport-grid5000-V3.pdf rationale for Grid'5000].
+Bretagne<br/>
+Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
-In addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for '''large scale testbeds''' where real life experimental conditions hold. '''The size of Grid'5000''', in terms of number of sites and number of processors per site, was established according to the scale of the experiments and the number of researchers involved in the project.
+Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
+Hauts de France<br/>
+Lorraine<br/>
+|}