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Grid'5000 is a large-scale and flexible 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 and IA.

Key features:

provides access to a large amount of resources: 12000 cores, 800 compute-nodes grouped in homogeneous clusters, and featuring various technologies: GPU, SSD, NVMe, 10G and 25G Ethernet, Infiniband, Omni-Path
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.

Grid'5000 is merging with FIT to build the SILECS Infrastructure for Large-scale Experimental Computer Science. Read an Introduction to SILECS (April 2018)

Recently published documents and presentations:

Presentation of Grid'5000 (April 2019)
Report from the Grid'5000 Science Advisory Board (2018)

Older documents:

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 2026-10-23 20:58): 8 current events, 2 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

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

Maxime Agusti, Eddy Caron, Benjamin Fichel, Laurent Lefèvre, Olivier Nicol, et al.. PPEM-BM: Portable Power Estimation Methodology for Bare Metal Servers. ICPADS 2025 - 31st IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Dec 2025, Hefei, China. pp.1-8. hal-05365793 view on HAL pdf
Jérémie Rodez, Patricia Stolf, Thierry Monteil. Placement of Distributed Machine Learning Services for AI- and Smart Grid-Enabled IoT Platforms. 2026. hal-05279358 view on HAL pdf
Sweta Suresh, Maxime Guillaud. Belief Propagation Decoding of Tensor-Based Modulation for Unsourced Random Access. IZS 2026 - International Zurich Seminar on Information and Communication, Feb 2026, Zurich, Switzerland. hal-05451488 view on HAL pdf
Daniel Richards Arputharaj, Charlotte Rodriguez, Angelo Rodio, Giovanni Neglia. Green Federated Learning via Carbon-Aware Client and Time Slot Scheduling. MASCOTS 2025 - 33rd International Symposium on the Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication System, Oct 2025, Paris, France. 10.1109/MASCOTS67699.2025.11283314. hal-05423023 view on HAL pdf
Shadi Ibrahim, Jad Darrous. Erasure Coding Aware Block Placement for Data-Intensive Applications. CHEOPS 2025 - 5th Workshop on Challenges and Opportunities of Efficient and Performant Storage Systems, Mar 2025, Rotterdam Netherlands, Netherlands. pp.15-22, 10.1145/3719330.3721229. hal-05016741 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
Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Hauts de France
Lorraine