Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• JLESC (former JLPC) (Joint Laboratory for Extreme-Scale Computing) with University of University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Argonne Nat. Lab and BSC. Several members of MESCAL are partners of this laboratory, and have done several visits to Urbana-Champaign or NCSA.

• Title: Exascale Computing Scheduling and Energy

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil) - INF (INF) - Nicolas MAILLARD

• Start year: 2014

• See also: https://team.inria.fr/exase/

• The main scientific goal of this collaboration for the three years is the development of state-of- the-art energy-aware scheduling algorithms for exascale systems. Three complementary research directions have been identified : (1) Fundamentals for the scaling of schedulers: develop new scheduling algorithms for extreme exascale machines and use existing workloads to validate the proposed scheduling algorithms (2) Design of schedulers for large-scale infrastructures : propose energy-aware schedulers in large-scale infrastructures and develop adaptive scheduling algorithms for exascale machines (3) Tools for the analysis of large scale schedulers : develop aggregation methodologies for scheduler analysis to propose synthetized visualizations for large traces analysis and then analyze schedulers and energy traces for correlation analysis

• MESCAL has strong connections with both UFRGS (Porto Alegre, Brazil) and USP (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The creation of the LICIA common laboratory (see next section) has made this collaboration even tighter.

• MESCAL has strong bounds with the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, within the (Joint Laboratory on Petascale Computing, see previous section).

• LICIA. The CNRS, Inria, the Universities of Grenoble, Grenoble INP and Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul have created the LICIA (Laboratoire International de Calcul intensif et d'Informatique Ambiante). Jean-Marc Vincent is the director of the laboratory, on the French side.

  The main themes are high performance computing, language processing, information representation, interfaces and visualization as well as distributed systems.

  More information can be found at http://www.inf.ufrgs.br/licia/ .