SLICES-FR is the French node of SLICES-RI.

SLICES-FR is included on the French national Roadmap since 2016. It aims at providing an open experimental platform fully monitored and programmable at every point of the data continuum from its capture to its storage and processing going through its transmission over heterogeneous wired and wireless network technologies.

This infrastructure enables end-to-end experimentation with heterogeneous hardware (end devices, gateways, edge/fog/cloud servers, network equipments, etc), software and applications at all levels of software layers, enabling reproducible research across programmable networks and systems.
SLICES-FR is rules through a legal entity named GIS SLICES-FR that gathers 3 research institutes (Inria, CEA, CNRS), 4 “grandes écoles” – engineering schools (IMT, ENS Lyon, Eurecom, INSA Lyon) and 7 major French universities (COMUE Toulouse, Nantes Université, Sorbonne Université, Univ. Sorbonne Paris Nord, Univ. Strasbourg, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Univ. Rennes).

SLICES-FR relies on our expertise acquired with the operation of various previous research infrastructure such as Grid5000 and FIT. While its primary initial funding is sourced from French programs such as France 2030 (PEPR Cloud and PEPR Networks of the Future), it also benefits from additional sources of funding. For a comprehensive overview, please refer to the SLICES-FR website.