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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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 3001 overall):

Mathis Valli, Loïc Cudennec, Alexandru Costan. Evaluating Federated Learning Beyond Simulation: A Deployment-Aware Methodology. CCGrid 2026 - IEEE 26th International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing, IEEE, May 2026, Sydney, Australia. hal-05477787v2 view on HAL pdf
Hugo Reymond. Modèle d'exécution conscient de l'énergie pour les systèmes intermittents. Autre cs.OH. Université de Rennes, 2024. Français. NNT : 2024URENS035. tel-05056937v2 view on HAL pdf
Lluis Prior Sancho, Tommaso Belvedere, Marco Tognon. From Pixels to Touch: Direct Tactile Servoing with Learned Photometric Normalization. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, In press, 10.1109/LRA.2026.3685944. hal-05599932 view on HAL pdf
Ndeye-Emilie Mbengue, Pierre Monnin, Miguel Couceiro, Fabien Gandon. Which Are the Low-Resource Languages of the Semantic Web?. ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-05607932 view on HAL pdf
Albert d'Aviau de Piolant, Hayfa Tayeb, Bérenger Bramas, Mathieu Faverge, Abdou Guermouche, et al.. Improving energy efficiency of HPC applications using unbalanced GPU power capping. HCW (Ipdps workshop), Jun 2025, Milan (Italie), Italy. hal-04883872v2 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>
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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:
+* 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
+<br>
+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]].
-''An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems''
+<br>
+Published documents and presentations:
+* [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)]
-Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ''ADT ALADDIN-G5K''  initiative.
+Older documents:
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/slides/2014-09-24-Cluster2014-KeynoteFD-v2.pdf Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014]
+* [https://www.grid5000.fr/ScientificCommittee/SAB%20report%20final%20short.pdf Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014)]
+<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'''
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-==Latest news==
-=== Supercomputing and grid computing days at Lille ===
-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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-=== Latest updated experiment descriptions ===
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+== Random pick of publications ==
-=== Latest updated publications ===
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-=== Research in Grids - Production Grids workshop held October 13th, 2009 ===
-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.
-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].
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-=== Grid'5000 Tutorial at [http://eventos.saber.ula.ve/eventos/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=56 CLCAR 2009] in Venezuela  ===
-[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).
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-<br>
+=== Grid'5000 sites===
-==Grid'5000 at a glance==
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-* '''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.
-===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]]
-* [[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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