Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR Solhar (ANR‐13‐MONU‐0007)

This project aims at studying and designing algorithms and parallel programming models for implementing direct methods for the solution of sparse linear systems on emerging computing platforms equipped with accelerators. This project proposes an innovative approach which relies on the efficiency and portability of runtime systems, such as the StarPU tool. The focus of RealOpt in this project is on the scheduling aspect. Indeed, executing a heterogeneous workload with complex dependencies on a heterogeneous architecture is a very challenging problem that demands the development of effective scheduling algorithms. These will be confronted with possibly limited views of dependencies among tasks and multiple, and potentially conflicting objectives, such as minimizing the makespan, maximizing the locality of data or, where it applies, minimizing the memory consumption.

See also: http://solhar.gforge.inria.fr/

ANR SONGS (ANR 11 INFRA 13)

The goal of the SONGS project is to extend the applicability of the SimGrid simulation framework from Grids and Peer-to-Peer systems to Clouds and High Performance Computation systems. Any sound study of such systems through simulations relies on the following pillars of simulation methodology: Efficient simulation kernel; Sound and validated models; Simulation analysis tools; Campaign simulation management. The contribution of RealOpt in this project revolves around enabling peer-to-peer simulation, and providing use cases for Cloud Comupting simulations.

See also: http://infra-songs.gforge.inria.fr/