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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 AI.

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 2026-05-16 10:03): 6 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2945 overall):

Thomas Firmin, Pierre Boulet, El-Ghazali Talbi. Asynchronous Multi-fidelity Hyperparameter Optimization Of Spiking Neural Networks. International Conference on Neuromorphic Systems (ICONS 2024), Jul 2024, Washington, United States. hal-04781629 view on HAL pdf
Pierre Jacquet, Maxime Agusti, Eddy Caron, Camille Coti, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, et al.. Untangling GPU Power Consumption: Job-Level Inference in Cloud Shared Settings. EUROSYS 2026 - European Conference on Computer Systems, ACM, Apr 2026, Edinbourg, Ecosse, United Kingdom. 10.1145/3767295.3769333. hal-05291033 view on HAL pdf
Wedan Emmanuel Gnibga, Andrew A Chien, Anne Blavette, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. FlexCoolDC: Datacenter Cooling Flexibility for Harmonizing Water, Energy, Carbon, and Cost Trade-offs. e-Energy 2024 - 15th ACM International Conference on Future and Sustainable Energy Systems, Jun 2024, Singapore, Singapore. pp.108-122, 10.1145/3632775.3661936. hal-04581701 view on HAL pdf
Dorian Goepp, Fernando Ayats Llamas, Olivier Richard, Quentin Guilloteau. ACM REP24 Tutorial: Reproducible distributed environments with NixOS Compose. 2024, pp.1-3. hal-04613983 view on HAL pdf
Volodia Parol-Guarino, Nikos Parlavantzas. Auction-based Placement of Function Chains in the Fog at Scale. Europar 2025 - 31st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Aug 2025, Dresden, Germany. pp.1-14. hal-05121317 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