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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 2026-11-02 09:17): 8 current events, 1 planned (details)

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 3010 overall):

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
Guillaume Méroué, Fabien Gandon, Pierre Monnin. Link Prediction or Perdition: the Seeds of Instability in Knowledge Graph Embeddings. ESWC 2026 - 23rd European Semantic Web Conference, May 2026, Dubrovnik, Croatia. hal-05542928v2 view on HAL pdf
Matthieu Simonin, Anne-Cécile Orgerie. Méthodologies de calcul d'empreinte carbone sur une plateforme de calcul : exemple du site Grid'5000 de Rennes. JRES 2024 - Journées réseaux de l'enseignement et de la recherche, Renater, Dec 2024, Rennes, France. pp.1-14. hal-04893984 view on HAL pdf
Ishaan Shah, S Lucas, G Drettakis. Frequency-Aware Spatial-Angular Gaussians for Efficient Global Illumination Precomputation and Real-Time Rendering. Computer Graphics Forum, In press, 45 (4), 10.1111/cgf.70542. hal-05702737 view on HAL pdf
Mathis Guckert, Hélène Le Cadre, Jean Le Hénaff. A Generalized Potential Game Approach of UAV Swarm Coordination for Hidden Target Localization. IEEE Control Systems Letters, In press. hal-05252199v3 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