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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: 15000 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 2025-09-13 17:10): 4 current events, 3 planned (details)

Random pick of publications

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2921 overall):

François Lemaire, Louis Roussel. Parameter Estimation using Integral Equations. Maple Transactions, 2024, Proceedings of the Maple Conference 2023, 4 (1), 10.5206/mt.v4i1.17126. hal-04560846v2 view on HAL pdf
Romain Xu-Darme, Jenny Benois-Pineau, Romain Giot, Georges Quénot, Zakaria Chihani, et al.. On the stability, correctness and plausibility of visual explanation methods based on feature importance. CBMI'23 - the 20th International Conference on Content-based Multimedia Indexing, Sep 2023, Orléans, France. pp.119-125, 10.1145/3617233.3617257. cea-04256974 view on HAL pdf
Can Cui, Imran Ahamad Sheikh, Mostafa Sadeghi, Emmanuel Vincent. End-to-end Multichannel Speaker-Attributed ASR: Speaker Guided Decoder and Input Feature Analysis. 2023 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU 2023), Dec 2023, Taipei, Taiwan. 10.1109/ASRU57964.2023.10389729. hal-04235774 view on HAL pdf
Pierre Epron, Gaël Guibon, Miguel Couceiro. ORPAILLEUR SyNaLP at CLEF 2024 Task 2: Good Old Cross Validation for Large Language Models Yields the Best Humorous Detection. Working Notes of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2024), Sep 2024, Grenoble, France. pp.1841-1856. hal-04696012 view on HAL pdf
Guillaume Helbecque, Ezhilmathi Krishnasamy, Nouredine Melab, Pascal Bouvry. GPU-Accelerated Tree-Search in Chapel versus CUDA and HIP. 14th IEEE Workshop Parallel / Distributed Combinatorics and Optimization (PDCO 2024), May 2024, San Francisco, United States. 10.1109/IPDPSW63119.2024.00156. hal-04551856 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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Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Hauts de France
Lorraine