Inria Project Lab Discovery

Distributed and COoperative management of Virtual Environments autonomousLY

The DISCOVERY initiative aims at exploring a new way of operating Utility Computing (UC) resources.

To accommodate the ever-increasing demand for Utility Computing (UC) resources, while taking into account both energy and economical issues, the current trend consists in building larger and larger data centers in a few strategic locations. Although such an approach enables UC providers to cope with the actual demand while continuing to operate UC resources through centralized software system, it is far from delivering sustainable and efficient UC infrastructures. We claim that a disruptive change in UC infrastructures is required: UC resources should be managed differently, considering locality as a primary concern. To this aim, we propose to leverage any facilities available through the Internet in order to deliver widely distributed UC platforms that can better match the geographical dispersal of users as well as the unending demand. Critical to the emergence of such locality-based UC (LUC) platforms is the availability of appropriate operating mechanisms. We advocate the implementation of a unified system driving the use of resources at an unprecedented scale by turning a complex and diverse infrastructure into a collection of abstracted computing facilities that is both easy to operate and reliable.

Start Date: January 2015

Duration: 4 years

Avalon Members: J. Darrous, G. Fedak, C. Perez

More information on Discovery website

Inria Project Lab C2S@Exa

Computer and Computational Sciences at Exascale INRIA Large Scale Initiative

The C2S@Exa INRIA large-scale initiative is concerned with the development of numerical modeling methodologies that fully exploit the processing capabilities of modern massively parallel architectures in the context of a number of selected applications related to important scientific and technological challenges for the quality and the security of life in our society. Avalon is a core-team member, co-leading Pole 4 on Programming models.

Start Date: 2013

Duration: 4 years

Avalon Members: T. Gautier, C. Perez, J. Richard

More information on C2S@Exa website

Inria Project Lab HAC-SPECIS

HAC SPECIS: Inria project lab on High-performance Application and Computers: Studying PErformance and Correctness In Simulation (2016-2020) :

The goal of the HAC SPECIS (High-performance Application and Computers: Studying PErformance and Correctness In Simulation) project is to answer  methodological needs of HPC application and runtime developers and to allow to study real HPC systems both from the correctness and performance point of view. To this end, we gather experts from the HPC, formal verification and performance evaluation community. website : http://hacspecis.gforge.inria.fr/

 

Start Date: June 2016

Duration: 4 years

Avalon Members: F. Suter, L. Lefevre

INRIA Project Lab Héméra

French Project around the Grid’5000 testbed.

INRIA Project Lab Héméra

Héméra was an INRIA Large Scale Initiative (2010-2014), that aimed at demonstrating ambitious up-scaling techniques for large scale distributed computing by carrying out several dimensioning experiments on the Grid’5000 infrastructure, at animating the scientific community around Grid’5000 and at enlarging the Grid’5000 community by helping newcomers to make use of Grid’5000.

More information on Hemera website