Grid5000:Get an account

Quick links to the account creation forms:

• for academics in France: CLICK HERE
• for candidates to the Open Access program: CLICK HERE

Explanation below.

General conditions

To get an account, you must justify of a use of Grid'5000 for its intended purposes.

The following extract of the Grid'5000 usage policy details these purposes:

Grid'5000 is a scientific instrument supporting experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on distributed computing, high performance computing, big data and networking. Its use should lead to results or contribute to education in this area.

Policy for academics in France

For all academics in France whose work is compatible with the usage policy, accounts can be requested after having read and accepted Grid'5000's usage policy using:

the FORM for academics in France

Please contact the person responsible for the site nearest to you before submitting a request if he does not know you, as he will have to accept your request and he will receive account management and accounting mails related to your usage of Grid'5000.

In doubt, you can contact the board of directors at resp-sites_gis_g5k AT inria.fr.

Policy for academics outside of France and/or non-academics

For Researchers outside of France

• Grid'5000 is funded by institutions such as Inria, CNRS, and many universities. Access to Grid'5000 is available to members of contributing institutions, and can be extended to their active collaborators and to selected outstanding research projects. If you have an active formal collaboration with academic researchers from France (e.g. via a European project), you may be able to get an regular account thanks to them. Ask your French collaborators for details in order to use the form provided above, NOT THE OPEN-ACCESS FORM below.
• If you do not have an active collaboration with academic researchers from France, you can request an account with:

the Open Access FORM

	Note
	About the Open Access program conditions The 'Open Access' program enables researchers to get a Grid'5000 account valid for two months, with some other restrictions. At the end of this period, the user must submit a report explaining its use of Grid'5000 to open-access@lists.grid5000.fr, and (possibly) apply for renewal.

Open Access accounts currently provide unrestricted access to Grid'5000 (this might be changed in the future). However:

• Usage must follow the Grid'5000 Usage Policy
• We ask Open Access users not to use OAR's "Advance reservations" for jobs more than 24 hours in the future.

For private companies

• Private companies interested in providing or using resources may contact one of the Grid'5000 executive board members.