Grid5000:Home

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 Content on this website is partly outdated.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: Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019) Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018) Older documents: Slides from Frederic Desprez's keynote at IEEE CLUSTER 2014 Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2014) 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 2025-10-29 18:57): 7 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2925 overall):

• Roblex Nana Tchakoute, Claude Tadonki, Petr Dokladal, Petr Dokladal, Youssef Mesri. A Flexible Operational Framework for Energy Profiling of Programs. 2024 International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Workshops (SBAC-PADW), Nov 2024, Hilo, United States. pp.12-22, 10.1109/SBAC-PADW64858.2024.00014. hal-04819054 view on HAL pdf
• Augustin Bariant, Jules Baudrin, Gaëtan Leurent, Clara Pernot, Léo Perrin, et al.. Fast AES-Based Universal Hash Functions and MACs. IACR Transactions on Symmetric Cryptology, 2024, 2024 (2), pp.35-67. 10.46586/tosc.v2024.i2.35-67. hal-04710478 view on HAL pdf
• Pierre-Etienne Polet. Portage des chaînes de traitement sonar sur architecture hétérogène : conception et évaluation d'un environnement de programmation basé sur les tâches moldables. Informatique cs. Ecole normale supérieure de lyon - ENS LYON, 2024. Français. NNT : 2024ENSL0004. tel-04633261 view on HAL pdf
• Maxime Gobert. Contributions to the Analysis and Design of Parallel Batched Bayesian Optimization Algorithms. Operations Research math.OC. Université de Mons (Belgique), 2024. English. NNT : . tel-04801888 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

Latest news

Cluster "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)

Tutorials of the SLICES-FR school 2025

The tutorial of the first SLICES-FR School, which was held from July 7th to 11th in Lyon are available on the following pages:

All tutorials

Grid'5000 tutorials

-- Grid'5000 Team 15:19, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

End of support for Debian10 environments

Support for the debian10/buster kadeploy environments is stopped due to the end of upstream support and compatibility issues with recent hardware.

The last version of the debian10 environments (version 2025082716) 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 09:21, 1 October 2025 (CEST)

Cluster "chuc" is now in the default queue in Lille

We are pleased to announce that the Chuc[1] cluster of Lille is now available in the default queue.

Chuc is a cluster composed of 8 nodes Apollo 6500 Gen10 Plus.

Each node features:

1x CPU AMD EPYC 7513 (Zen 3), x86_64, 32 cores/CPU

4x GPU Nvidia A100-SXM4-40GB (40 GiB)

512 GiB RAM

4x 1.92 TB SSD SAS HPE

Due to a wattmeter hardware error, the cluster's energy consumption cannot be monitored via wattmeters yet.

You will be informed when the physical energy monitoring is available on this cluster.

This cluster was funded by the CornelIA CPER project.

[1] https://www.grid5000.fr/w/Lille:Hardware#chuc

Best regards,

Grid'5000 Technical Team

-- Grid'5000 Team 09:51, 15 September 2025 (CEST)

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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