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ALADDIN-G5K : ensuring the development of Grid'5000
for the 2008-2012 period
An infrastructure distributed in 9 sites around France, for research in large-scale parallel and distributed systems
Engineers ensuring the development and day to day support of the infrastructure are mostly provided by INRIA, under the ADT ALADDIN-G5K initiative.
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Latest news
Grid'5000 usage featured in iSGTW
Pierre Riteau's work has once again reached the news: Miriam Boon, iSGTW, reports on sky computing
Grid'5000
Latest updated experiment descriptions
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Latest updated publications
Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2928 overall):
- Anas Mokhtari, Baptiste Jonglez, Thomas Ledoux. Towards Digital Sustainability: Involving Cloud Users as Key Players. IC2E 2024 - 12th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering, Sep 2024, Paphos, Cyprus. pp.126-132, 10.1109/IC2E61754.2024.00021. hal-04633237 view on HAL pdf
- Bruno Lévy, Nicolas Ray, Quentin Merigot, Hugo Leclerc. Large-scale semi-discrete optimal transport with distributed Voronoi diagrams. Journal of Computational Physics, 2025, pp.114374. 10.1016/j.jcp.2025.114374. hal-05253830 view on HAL pdf
- Hee-Soo Choi, Priyansh Trivedi, Mathieu Constant, Karën Fort, Bruno Guillaume. Au-delà de la performance des modèles : la prédiction de liens peut-elle enrichir des graphes lexico-sémantiques du français ?. Actes de JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2024. 31ème Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles, volume 1 : articles longs et prises de position, Jul 2024, Toulouse, France. pp.36-49. hal-04623008 view on HAL pdf
- Mai Huong Do, Millian Poquet, Georges da Costa. FedE-ator : A framework for energy consumption analysis of federated learning in distributed systems. Compas’2025 : Parallélisme / Architecture/ Système, Jul 2025, Bordeaux, France. hal-05181877 view on HAL pdf
- Sofya Dymchenko, Abhishek Purandare, Bruno Raffin. MelissaDL x Breed: Towards Data-Efficient On-line Supervised Training of Multi-parametric Surrogates with Active Learning. AI4S 2024 - 5th Workshop on artificial intelligence and machine learning for scientific applications, Nov 2024, Atlanta (Georgia), United States. pp.1-9. hal-04712480 view on HAL pdf
 A screencast demoing the latest developments in the user interface built on top of the API's is now available.
These developments showcase in particular how the webUI can help you understand and aggregate the metrics of an experiment to help you check whether what is happening is what you are expecting. Remember that the API exposes all the data used by the webUI: you can build your own comparable tools.
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Grid'5000 at a glance
- 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.
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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 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 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 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 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 Grid'5000 funding.
INRIA
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CNRS
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Universities
University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
University of Rennes 1, Rennes
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux
University Lille 1, Lille
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
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Regional councils
Aquitaine
Bretagne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Nord Pas de Calais
Lorraine
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