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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Content on this website is partly outdated.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

SSH policy changes on access machine

Dear users,

Due to multiple occurences of bad usages of the access machine, the technical team has decided to change the SSH connection mode to the...

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 -l debian%...

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 :...

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 ...

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall):

Enzo Isnard, Sébastien Héron, Mahmoud Elsawy, Stéphane Lanteri. Optimization of imaging systems containing metasurfaces using a ray-wave model. Metamaterials 2025 -19th International Congress on Artificial Materials for Novel Wave Phenomena, METAMORPHOSE VI AISBL; University of Amsterdam; AMOLF, Sep 2025, Amsterdam, Netherlands. hal-05250474 view on HAL pdf
Sweta Suresh, Maxime Guillaud. Belief Propagation Decoding of Tensor-Based Modulation for Unsourced Random Access. IZS 2026 - International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication, Feb 2026, Zurich, Switzerland. hal-05451488 view on HAL pdf
Jérémie Rodez, Patricia Stolf, Thierry Monteil. Online Placement of Distributed Machine Learning Services over Heterogeneous IoT Platforms. 2026. hal-05726991 view on HAL pdf
Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Méthodologies de calculs de l'empreinte carbone sur une plateforme de calcul - L'exemple du site de Rennes de Grid'5000. JRES 2024 – Journée Réseaux de l'Enseignement Supérieur, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-13. hal-04762718v2 view on HAL pdf
Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon, Pierre Monnin. Prédiction ou perdition de liens : les graines de l'instabilité dans les plongements de graphes de connaissances. IC2026 - 37es journées de l’Ingénierie des Connaissances, Jul 2026, Arras, France. hal-05646323 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>
-''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]
+<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)]
+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'''
+<rss max=4 item-max-length="150">https://www.grid5000.fr/rss/G5KNews.php</rss>
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+[[News|Read more news]]
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-== Latest updates from Grid'5000 users ==
-* '''Experiments'''
-{{#experiments:3|||**}}
-* '''Publications'''
-{{#publications:3||**}}
-==Latest news==
-[[Image:Cheat_Sheet_mini.png|left|120px|]]
-=== First [[Media:g5k_cheat_sheet.pdf|Cheat sheet created]] ===
-If you are of those who enjoy a recap of the different commands and links to the main help pages, you'll be pleased to see that an admin has contributed the first [[Media:g5k_cheat_sheet.pdf|Grid'5000 cheat sheet]] to this wiki. If you wish to understand how it was built, you can read and suggest contributions in [https://www.grid5000.fr/cgi-bin/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=3679 the corresponding bug].
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-[[Image:IPDPS2011.jpg|left|120px|]]
+{{#status:0|0|0|http://bugzilla.grid5000.fr/status/upcoming.json}}
-=== Grid'5000 users get 2 out of 3 [http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2011/2011_phd_forum.html Best Poster award at IPDPS 2011] ===
-Congratulations go to Alexandra Carpen-Amarie ( IRISA, University Rennes 1, INRIA, Rennes, France) for her poster ''Towards a Self-Adaptive Data Management System for Cloud Environments'' and to Pierre Riteau (INRIA, IRISA, Rennes, France) for his poster ''Building Large Scale Dynamic Computing Infrastructures over Distributed Clouds''
+== Random pick of publications ==
-----
+{{#publications:}}
-[[Grid5000:News|read more news]]
-<br>
-==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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+* [[Nantes:Home|Nantes]]
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-* [[Reims:Home|Reims]]
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 * [[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 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 ==
-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/>
-Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims<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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