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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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

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 2026-07-15 18:16): 7 current events, None planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2976 overall):

Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue. In Data or Invisible: Toward a Better Digital Representation of Low-Resource Languages with Knowledge Graphs. ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-05608081 view on HAL pdf
Jan Aalmoes. Intelligence artificielle pour des services moraux : Concilier équité et confidentialité. Intelligence artificielle cs.AI. INSA de Lyon, 2024. Français. NNT : 2024ISAL0126. tel-05014177 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
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
Donatien Schmitz, Guillaume Rosinosky, Etienne Rivière. Justin: Hybrid CPU/Memory Elastic Scaling for Distributed Stream Processing ⋆. DAIS 2025 - 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Daniel Balouek; Ibéria Medeiros, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.1-17. hal-05081993 view on HAL pdf

Latest news

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 they are:

grenoble : vercors4 (3 nodes)

lyon : hydra (4 nodes)

sophia : esterel10 (3 nodes)

nancy : grouille (2 nodes)

louvain : spirou (8 nodes)

This is a key step towards the widespread deployment of Debian13. Most

clusters will be switched to a Debian 13 default environment Wednesday 26 August 2026.

If you need to, all the variants images (min, nfs, big) are available

for deployment, see `kaenv3 -l debian%13%` on frontends to list them.

Remember that there is a significant change concerning the modules. See

the preview announce : https://www.grid5000.fr/w/News#Upcoming_changes_to_modules

Best regards,

For Abaca and Grid'5000/SLICES-FR,

Nicolas Perrin

-- Grid'5000 Team 16:00, 02 Jul 2026 (CEST)

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 available with the new standard environment, and are already live for testing (but not activated by default).

If you want to test them you need to run the following commands:

unset MODULEPATH

module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest
/grid5000/spack/module-others

Now for more details: for the past months we have been working on updating the standard environment and the way we provide modules.

The current way uses Spack under the hood, and is tightly bound to the underlying operating system.

It's been proven to be quite a burden for the team, and therefore we are changing the way we manage modules to:

- use a solution oblivious to the Linux flavor; - have means to update software versions automatically, and a clear release cycle; - actually have something reproducible; - be able to automatically test our most sensitive modules when they change (on both OAR and SLURM clusters).

Under the hood we switched to Guix to manage them²; it will be totally transparent for you.

The upcoming modules are located in `/grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64`, and you can try them today!

In order to use them you need to perform the following commands¹:

unset MODULEPATH

module use /grid5000/guix-modules/x86_64/latest

The list of modules for the `latest` release is available here:

https://api.grid5000.fr/explorer/software.

We know it's missing a few software compared to the current modules, we've tracked them here.

These should b...

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)

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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-''An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems''
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+[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|260px|right|Grid'5000|link=https://www.grid5000.fr]]
-=== Supercomputing and grid computing days at Lille ===
+'''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.'''
-The first edition of the supercomputing and grid computing days at Lille will be held at Université de Lille1 and INRIA Lille - Nord Europe on December 2, 3 and 7, 2009. Half of the event is dedicated to the Grid5000 nation-wide grid infrastructure. A series of presentations including feedbacks on the use of Grid5000 is scheduled together with a one day practical training on it. The detailed program is available at: http://www2.lifl.fr/~melab/pmwiki/index.php?n=Main.Journ%e9esCIGIL
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+Key features:
-=== Latest updated experiment descriptions ===
+* 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
-{{#experiments:3}}
+* '''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
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+* '''advanced monitoring and measurement features for traces collection of networking and power consumption''', providing a deep understanding of experiments
-=== Latest updated publications ===
+* '''designed to support Open Science and reproducible research''', with full traceability of infrastructure and software changes on the testbed
-{{#publications:3}}
+* '''a vibrant community''' of 500+ users supported by a solid technical team
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-=== Research in Grids - Production Grids workshop held October 13th, 2009 ===
+<br>
-L’[http://www.idgrilles.fr Institut des Grilles (IdG)] et l’action Aladdin INRIA lancent un [[Appel Interfaces Recherche en grilles/Grilles de production 2009|appel commun à propositions]] pour dynamiser les recherches à l’interface entre la recherche sur les grilles, les grilles de recherche, et les grilles de production.
+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]].
-Le colloque présentera les questions ouvertes aux interfaces et les projets proposés dans le cadre de cet appel, afin de favoriser la création de nouveaux réseaux. Le but de la journée est de faire émerger des synergies. La présentation de travaux en cours est donc vivement encouragée. [http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~desprez/FILES/ProdRech.html Plus d’informations].
+<br>
-----
+Published documents and presentations:
-[[Image:CLCAR2009.jpg|left|120px]]
+* [[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)]
-=== Grid'5000 Tutorial at [http://eventos.saber.ula.ve/eventos/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=56 CLCAR 2009] in Venezuela  ===
+Older documents:
-[https://www.grid5000.fr/mediawiki/index.php/Special:G5KReports?menu=renderreport&username=Ygeorgiou Yiannis Georgiou] will present a Grid5000 tutorial at the 2nd edition of Latin American Conference on High Performance Computing (CLCAR) held in Merida, Venezuela (21-25 September 2009).
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
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+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/ScientificCommittee/SAB%20report%20final%20short.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014)]
-[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
+<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).
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 <br>
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
+{{#status:0|0|0|http://bugzilla.grid5000.fr/status/upcoming.json}}
-[[Image:site_map.png|thumbnail|128px|right|Grid'5000 sites]]
+<br>
-* '''Grid'5000''' is a scientific instrument for the study of large scale parallel and distributed systems. It aims at providing a '''highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental platform''' to its users. The initial aim (circa 2003) was to reach 5000 processors in the platform. It has been reframed at 5000 cores, and was reached during winter 2008-2009.
-* The infrastructure of Grid'5000 is geographically distributed on different sites hosting the instrument, initialy 9 in France. Porto Alegre, Brazil is now officially becoming the 10th site.
+== Random pick of publications ==
-===Sites:===
+{{#publications:}}
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+<rss max=4 item-max-length="2000">https://www.grid5000.fr/rss/G5KNews.php</rss>
+----
+[[News|Read more news]]
+=== Grid'5000 sites===
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-* [[Bordeaux:Home|Bordeaux]]
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-* [[Orsay:Home|Orsay]]
+* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
-* [[PortoAlegre:Home|Porto Alegre]]
+* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
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-* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
 * [[Sophia:Home|Sophia-Antipolis]]
+* [[Strasbourg:Home|Strasbourg]]
 * [[Toulouse:Home|Toulouse]]
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-[[Image:Software layers.png|thumbnail|271px|left|Grid'5000 allows experiments in all these software layers]]
-* '''Grid'5000''' is a research effort developping a '''large scale nation wide infrastructure for large scale parallel and distributed computing research'''.
-* '''17 [[Grid5000:Laboratories|laboratories]]''' are involved in France with the objective of providing the community a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications.
-The current plans are to extend from the 9 initial sites each with 100 to a thousand PCs, connected by the [http://www.renater.fr RENATER] Education and Research Network to a bigger platform including a few sites outside France not necessarily connected through a dedicated network connection. Sites in Brazil and Luxembourg should join shortly.
-All sites in France are connected to [http://www.renater.fr RENATER] with a 10Gb/s link.
-This high collaborative research effort is funded by INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.
-== Initial Rationale==
-'''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].
-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.
 == Current funding ==
-As from June 2008, INRIA is the main contributor to [[Grid5000:Funding|Grid'5000 funding]].
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 ===Universities===
-University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble<br/>
+IMT Atlantique<br/>
-University of Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
+Université Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble INP<br/>
+Université Rennes 1, Rennes<br/>
 Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse<br/>
-University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux<br/>
+Université Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux<br/>
-University Lille 1, Lille<br/>
+Université Lille 1, Lille<br/>
-Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
+École Normale Supérieure, Lyon<br/>
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 ===Regional councils===
 Aquitaine<br/>
+Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes<br/>
 Bretagne<br/>
+Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
 Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
-Nord Pas de Calais<br/>
+Hauts de France<br/>
 Lorraine<br/>
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