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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 2026-10-16 06:22): 6 current events, 3 planned (details)

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3009 overall):

Matthieu Mouzaoui, Yufei Han, Grégory Blanc, Michel Hurfin, Gabriel Rilling. Towards problem space-constrained adversarial attacks against graph neural network based network intrusion detection systems. Rendez-Vous de la Recherche et de l'Enseignement de la Sécurité des Systèmes d'Information (RESSI), May 2025, Lanniron, France. hal-05478056 view on HAL pdf
Louis Roussel, Rashid Barket. How Many Decay Factors Do You Need? Tree Positional Encoding for Symbolic Mathematics. 2026. hal-05760452 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
Albert d'Aviau de Piolant, Hayfa Tayeb, Bérenger Bramas, Mathieu Faverge, Abdou Guermouche, et al.. Improving energy efficiency of HPC applications using unbalanced GPU power capping. HCW (Ipdps workshop), Jun 2025, Milan (Italie), Italy. hal-04883872v2 view on HAL pdf
Kenta Ishiguro, Fonyuy-Asheri Caleb, Elouan Barraud, Renaud Lachaize, Yérom-David Bromberg, et al.. Everything You Need to Know About Virtual Machine Live Migration Between Heterogeneous Processors. EUROSYS 2026 - 21st European Conference on Computer Systems, Apr 2026, Edimbourg, United Kingdom. 10.1145/3767295.3803609. hal-05513543v2 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

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