Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

Members:

ISIR (UPMC/CNRS), LIP6 (UPMC/CNRS), LIB (UPMC/INSERM), LJLL (UPMC/CNRS), LTCI (Institut Mines-Télécom/CNRS), CHArt-LUTIN (Univ. Paris 8/EPHE), L2E (UPMC), STMS (IRCAM/CNRS).

Funding:

Sorbonne Universités, ANR.

Description:

The SMART Labex project aims globally to enhancing the quality of life in our digital societies by building the foundational bases for facilitating the inclusion of intelligent artifacts in our daily life for service and assistance. The project addresses underlying scientific questions raised by the development of Human-centered digital systems and artifacts in a comprehensive way. The research program is organized along five axes and Regal is responsible of the axe “Autonomic Distributed Environments for Mobility.”

The project involves a PhD grant of 100 000 euros over 2,5 years.

Members:

LIP6 (Regal), Ecole des Mines de Nantes (Constraint), IRISA (Triskell), LaBRI (LSR).

Funding:

ANR Infra.

Objectives:

The design of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) was last revised in 1999, at a time when a single program running on a uniprocessor desktop machine was the norm. Today's computing environment, however, is radically different, being characterized by many different kinds of computing devices, which are often mobile and which need to interact within the context of a single application. Supporting such applications, involving multiple mutually untrusted devices, requires resource management and scheduling strategies that were not planned for in the 1999 JVM design. The goal of InfraJVM is to design strategies that can meet the needs of such applications and that provide the good performance that is required in an MRE.

The coordinator of InfraJVM is Gaël Thomas, who left the team in 2014. Infra-JVM brings a grant of 202 000 euros from the ANR to UPMC over three years.