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Grid'5000

Grid'5000 is a large-scale and versatile testbed for experiment-driven research in all areas of computer science, with a focus on parallel and distributed computing including Cloud, HPC and Big Data.

Key features:

provides access to a large amount of resources: 1000 nodes, 8000 cores, grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: 10G Ethernet, Infiniband, GPUs, Xeon PHI
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.

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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 (2010-2014).

Current status (at 2025-12-08 14:47): 6 current events, 4 planned (details)

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

Anderson Andrei Da Silva. Investigating the Impacts of Multi-Object Scheduling Policies for Serverless Functions on the Edge-Cloud Continuum. Machine Learning cs.LG. Université Grenoble Alpes 2020-.., 2023. English. NNT : 2023GRALM078. tel-04974687 view on HAL pdf
Georges da Costa, Amina Guermouche. Measurement methods sheet, WG6 Exa-Soft. Université de Toulouse; Université de bordeaux. 2025. hal-05272179 view on HAL pdf
Juliette Luiselli, Jonathan Rouzaud-Cornabas, Nicolas Lartillot, Guillaume Beslon. Genome Streamlining: Effect of Mutation Rate and Population Size on Genome Size Reduction. Genome Biology and Evolution, 2024, 16, 10.1093/gbe/evae250. hal-04905734 view on HAL pdf
Clément Courageux-Sudan, Anne-Cécile Orgerie, Martin Quinson. Studying the end-to-end performance, energy consumption and carbon footprint of fog applications. ISCC 2024 - 29th IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications, Jun 2024, Paris, France. pp.1-7. hal-04581677 view on HAL pdf
Sorina Camarasu-Pop. Computational Reproducibility. 3rd cycle. 12th SLEIGHT Science Event, Saint Etienne (FR), France. 2024. hal-04649287 view on HAL pdf

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Current funding

As from June 2008, Inria is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

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
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Nord Pas de Calais
Lorraine