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<b>Grid'5000 is a precursor infrastructure of [https://www.slices-ri.eu SLICES-RI], Scientific Large Scale Infrastructure for Computing/Communication Experimental Studies.</b>
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[[Image:g5k-backbone.png|thumbnail|260px|right|Grid'5000|link=https://www.grid5000.fr]]
'''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
 
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''a scientific instrument designed to support experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science related to parallel, large-scale or distributed computing and networking'' <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]].
[[media:seminaire_intro.pdf|Download the latest general introduction]], or a [https://www.grid5000.fr/screencast/index.html screencast of recent webUI developments]
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== Latest updates from Grid'5000 users ==
* '''Experiments'''
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* '''Publications'''
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==Latest news==
=== [[Grid5000:School2011|Grid'5000 Spring School 2011]] awards announced ===
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[[Image:BestPresentationAward2011.png|300px|center|Best presentation award to Simon Delamare]]


Best presentation award to Simon Delamare
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Published documents and presentations:
* [[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)]


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Older documents:
[[Image:ChalengeWinner2011.png|300px|center|Challenger Winner 2011 to Rodrigue Chakode]]
* [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)]


Challenge Winner 2011 to Rodrigue Chakode
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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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The winning challenge entry demonstrated Deploying a [[media:Grid5000-2011-Challenge3.pdf|Highly-dynamic Virtual Cluster Based on OpenNebula and Xen in Grid'5000]], with [https://gforge.inria.fr/projects/svmsched/ SVMSched], and wins an archos Android tablet.
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=== Grid'5000 users selected for the second round of [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ccgrid11/SCALE%20Challenge.html the SCALE'2011 challenge] ===
The following paper has been selected for the second round of the [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ccgrid11/SCALE%20Challenge.html international SCALE'2011 challenge] organized in conjunction with the [http://www.ics.uci.edu/~ccgrid11/ IEEE CCGRID'2011] to be held on May 23-26, 2011 in Newport Beach, CA, USA. ''M. Djamaï, B. Derbel, N. Melab.'' '''A Large-Scale Pure P2P Approach for the B&B Algorithm.''' (IEEE/ACM CCGRID/SCALE’2011, Newport Beach, USA, May 23-26, 2011).


The paper presents a peer-to-peer Branch-and-Bound algorithm for solving large-scale challenging combinatorial optimization problems. The high scalability of the algorithm is demonstrated through intensive experiments performed on Grid'5000. The work is strongly related to the scientific challenge [[Hemera:SC:COPs|Large scale computing for combinatorial optimization problems]] of the INRIA [[Hemera]] large wingspan project.
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=== [http://renpar.irisa.fr/G5K.html Grid'5000 Tutorial] at [http://renpar.irisa.fr/ Renpar'20], to be held in Saint-Malo, May 10th ===  
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In the morning, talks will focus on experiment-driven research, open science and how Grid'5000 is a tool to be used in this context. The afternoon will be dedicated to concrete tutorials on how to access and to use Grid'5000. These tutorials will be based on the tutorials available at the [[:Category:Portal:Tutorial|Tutorial Home]].
 
== Random pick of publications ==
{{#publications:}}
 
==Latest news==
<rss max=4 item-max-length="2000">https://www.grid5000.fr/rss/G5KNews.php</rss>
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[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
[[News|Read more news]]
 
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==Grid'5000 at a glance==
[[Image:site_map.png|thumbnail|128px|right|Grid'5000 sites]]
* '''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, initially 9 sites in France (10 since 2011). Porto Alegre, Brazil is now officially becoming the first site abroad.


===Sites:===
=== Grid'5000 sites===
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* [[Bordeaux:Home|Bordeaux]]
* [[Grenoble:Home|Grenoble]]
* [[Grenoble:Home|Grenoble]]
* [[Lille:Home|Lille]]
* [[Lille:Home|Lille]]
* [[Luxembourg:Home|Luxembourg]]
* [[Luxembourg:Home|Luxembourg]]
* [[Louvain:Home|Louvain]]
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* [[Lyon:Home|Lyon]]
* [[Lyon:Home|Lyon]]
* [[Nancy:Home|Nancy]]
* [[Nancy:Home|Nancy]]
* [[Orsay:Home|Orsay]]
* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
* [[PortoAlegre:Home|Porto Alegre]]
* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
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* [[Reims:Home|Reims]]
* [[Rennes:Home|Rennes]]
* [[Sophia:Home|Sophia-Antipolis]]
* [[Sophia:Home|Sophia-Antipolis]]
* [[Strasbourg:Home|Strasbourg]]
* [[Toulouse:Home|Toulouse]]
* [[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 developing a '''large scale nation wide infrastructure for large scale parallel and distributed computing research'''.
* '''19 [[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, and Reims has now joined.
All sites in France are connected to [http://www.renater.fr RENATER] with a 10Gb/s link, except Reims, for the time linked through a 1Gb/s
This high collaborative research effort is funded by INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils.
== ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of '''Grid'5000''' ==
For the 2008-2012 period, Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ''ADT ALADDIN-G5K''  initiative.
==[[Hemera|HEMERA: Demonstrating ambitious up-scaling techniques on '''Grid'5000''']] ==
[[Hemera|Héméra]] is an INRIA Large Wingspan project, started in 2010, that aims at demonstrating ambitious up-scaling techniques for large scale distributed computing by carrying out several dimensioning experiments on the Grid’5000 infrastructure, at animating the scientific community around Grid’5000 and at enlarging the Grid’5000 community by helping newcomers to make use of Grid’5000.
== 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 ==
== Current funding ==
As from June 2008, INRIA is the main contributor to [[Grid5000:Funding|Grid'5000 funding]].
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===INRIA===
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===CNRS===
===CNRS===
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[[Image:CNRS-filaire-Quadri.png|125px|link=https://www.cnrs.fr]]
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===Universities===
===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/>
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/>
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims<br/>
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===Regional councils===
Aquitaine<br/>
Aquitaine<br/>
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes<br/>
Bretagne<br/>
Bretagne<br/>
Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
Champagne-Ardenne<br/>
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur<br/>
Nord Pas de Calais<br/>
Hauts de France<br/>
Lorraine<br/>
Lorraine<br/>
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Latest revision as of 10:02, 11 July 2025

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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:

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 2025-12-15 12:16): 7 current events, 2 planned (details)


Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2924 overall):

  • Lucian Trestioreanu, Flaviene Scheidt, Wazen M. Shbair, Jerome Francois, Damien Magoni, et al.. To Squelch or not to Squelch: Enabling Improved Message Dissemination on the XRP Ledger. 37th IEEE/IFIP Network Operations and Management Symposium (NOMS 2024), May 2024, Séoul, South Korea. hal-04621124 view on HAL pdf
  • François Portier, Lionel Truquet, Ikko Yamane. Nearest Neighbor Sampling for Covariate Shift Adaptation. 2024. hal-04645530 view on HAL pdf
  • Romain Pereira, Thierry Gautier, Adrien Roussel, Patrick Carribault. Measuring and Interpreting Dependent Task-based Applications Performances. 15th International Conference on Parallel Processing & Applied Mathematics - PPAM 2024, Sep 2024, Ostrava, Czech Republic. pp.227-241. hal-04767262 view on HAL pdf
  • Philippe Ledent, Radu Mateescu, Wendelin Serwe. Testing Resource Isolation for System-on-Chip Architectures. MARS 2024 - 6th Workshop on Models for Formal Analysis of Real Systems, Apr 2024, Luxembourg, Luxembourg. pp.1-40, 10.48550/arXiv.2403.18720. hal-04573384 view on HAL pdf
  • Cédric Prigent, Alexandru Costan, Gabriel Antoniu, Loïc Cudennec. Enabling Federated Learning across the Computing Continuum: Systems, Challenges and Future Directions. Future Generation Computer Systems, 2024, 160, pp.767-783. 10.1016/j.future.2024.06.043. hal-04659211 view on HAL pdf


Latest news

Rss.svgEnd 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)

Rss.svgEcotaxe 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)

    Rss.svgSome 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)

    Rss.svgCluster "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)


    Read more news

    Grid'5000 sites

    Current funding

    INRIA

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    CNRS

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    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