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Grid'5000

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.

Recently published 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).

Latest publications from Grid'5000 users

Five random publications that benefited from Grid'5000 (at least 2777 overall):

Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad, Thierry Winter. A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection. 2023. hal-04197467 view on HAL pdf
Daniel Balouek, Hélène Coullon. Dynamic Adaptation of Urgent Applications in the Edge-to-Cloud Continuum. Euro-Par 2023: International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Aug 2023, Limassol, Cyprus. pp.189-201, 10.1007/978-3-031-50684-0_15. hal-04387689 view on HAL pdf
Nicolas Amat, Pierre Bouvier, Hubert Garavel. A Toolchain to Compute Concurrent Places of Petri Nets. LNCS Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency, 2023, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 14150, pp.1-26. 10.1007/978-3-662-68191-6_1. hal-04392784 view on HAL pdf
Maxime Méloux, Christophe Cerisara. Novel-WD: Exploring acquisition of Novel World Knowledge in LLMs Using Prefix-Tuning. 2023. hal-04269919 view on HAL pdf
William Soto, Yannick Parmentier, Claire Gardent. Phylogeny-Inspired Soft Prompts For Data-to-Text Generation in Low-Resource Languages. IJCNLP-AACL 2023: The 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, ACL, Nov 2023, Bali, Indonesia. hal-04199557v2 view on HAL pdf

Current status (at 2025-07-03 18:04): 1 current events, 6 planned (details)

Latest news

Two systems and network administrator positions available

Grid'5000 is recruiting two systems and network administrators, in either Grenoble, Lille, Lyon, Nancy, or Rennes. More details.

Grid'5000 tutorial days in Lille

We are happy to let you known that tutorials around Grid'5000 will be organized in Lille on November 20th, 2014, with a few seats available for people outside Lille. All information on the dedicated web page.

Grid'5000 spring school now finished

The Grid'5000 spring school took place between June 16th, 2014 and June 19th, 2014 in Lyon. Three awards were given for presentation or challenge entries (the challenge entries ended as a tie):

Best presentation award to Miguel Liroz Gistau, Reza Akbarinia and Patrick Valduriez

Best challenge entry to Tomasz Buchert, Emmanuel Jeanvoine and Lucas Nussbaum

Best challenge entry to Jonathan Pastor and Laurent Pouilloux

Grid'5000 sites

Current funding

As from June 2008, INRIA is the main contributor to Grid'5000 funding.

INRIA

CNRS

Universities

University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble
University of Rennes 1, Rennes
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse / INSA / FERIA / Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse
University Bordeaux 1, Bordeaux
University Lille 1, Lille
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Lyon
Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

Regional councils

Aquitaine
Bretagne
Champagne-Ardenne
Provence Alpes Côte d'Azur
Nord Pas de Calais
Lorraine