Month: October 2016

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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

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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

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PIA ELCI

ELCI is a French software project that brings together academic and industrial partners to design and provide a software environment for the next generation of HPC systems. The principal objective for the project is to facilitate the development of a software environment that meets the demands of the new generation of HPC architectures. This will cover the whole software stack (system and programming environments), numerical solvers and pre/post/co processing software.
ELCI is a French software project that brings together academic and industrial partners to design and provide a software environment for the next generation of HPC systems. The project is funded by the participating partners and by the French FSN “Fond pour la Société Numérique”.

The principal objective for the project is to facilitate the development of a software environment that meets the demands of the new generation of HPC architectures. This will cover the whole software stack (system and programming environments), numerical solvers and pre/post/co processing software.

A co-design approach is employed, that covers the software environment for computer architectures, the requirements of more demanding applications, and is adapted to future hardware architectures (multicore/many core processors, high-speed networks and data storage).

These developments will be validated according to their capacity to deal with the new exascale challenges- larger scalability, higher resiliency, greater security, improved modularity, with better abstraction and interactivity for application cases.

Start Date: September 2014

Duration: 3 years

Avalon Members: T. Gautier, L.Lefevre, C. Perez, I. Rais, J. Richard

More information on the ELCI web site.