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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 2026-10-19 14:36): 6 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

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

Donatien Schmitz, Guillaume Rosinosky, Etienne Rivière. Justin: Hybrid CPU/Memory Elastic Scaling for Distributed Stream Processing ⋆. DAIS 2025 - 25th International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems, Daniel Balouek; Ibéria Medeiros, Jun 2025, Lille, France. pp.1-17. hal-05081993 view on HAL pdf
Florian Rascoussier. Kayros. 2026, swh:1:dir:ba5d8e22795d91155334793acfe25b1590dbcf71;origin=https://github.com/0nyr/kayros;visit=swh:1:snp:9ed357ab3ca3e346a96ecfc306b6958d222e8d1a;anchor=swh:1:rev:e30fa492466b67809cdfd1e4b945230ba0bdcb2e. hal-05697652 view on HAL
Clémentine Bleuze, Fanny Ducel, Karën Fort, Maxime Amblard. « Vers la création d'une super-intelligence » : un corpus pour étudier les revendications des articles de TAL. Journées de lancement LIFT 2, Nov 2024, Orléans, France. hal-04880335 view on HAL pdf
Maurice Brémond, Hugo Brunie, Laurent Debreu, Rupert W Ford, Florian Lemarié, et al.. Poseidon: A Source-to-Source Translator for Holistic HPC Optimizations of Ocean Models on Regular Grids. SC 2024 - International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, Nov 2024, Atlanta (Georgia), United States. , pp.1-1, 2024, 10.5281/zenodo.11190458. hal-04811677 view on HAL pdf
Angelo Rodio, Giovanni Neglia, Zheng Chen, Erik G Larsson. A Unified Convergence Analysis for Semi-Decentralized Learning: Sampled-to-Sampled vs. Sampled-to-All Communication. AAAI-26 - 40th Annual AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Jan 2026, Singapore, Singapore. hal-05423080 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
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