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EPOC
Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Thomas Ledoux, Md Sabbir Hasan, Yunbo Li.
The project EPOC (Energy Proportional and Opportunistic Computing system) is a project running for 4 years. Four other partners collaborate within the project that is coordinated by ASCOLA: Myriads team, and the three institutions ENIB, ENSTB and University of Nantes. In this project, the partners focus on energy-aware task execution from the hardware to application's components in the context of a mono-site data center (all resources are in the same physical location) which is connected to the regular electric Grid and to renewable energy sources (such as windmills or solar cells). Three major challenges are addressed in this context: Optimize the energy consumption of distributed infrastructures and service compositions in the presence of ever more dynamic service applications and ever more stringent availability requirements for services; Design a clever cloud's resource management which takes advantage of renewable energy availability to perform opportunistic tasks, then exploring the trade-off between energy saving and performance aspects in large-scale distributed system; Investigate energy-aware optical ultra high-speed interconnection networks to exchange large volumes of data (VM memory and storage) over very short periods of time.
One of the strengths of the project is to provide a systematic approach, and use a single model for the system (from hard to soft) by mixing constraint programming and behavioral models to manage energy consumption in data centers.
PrivGen
Participants : Fatima-Zahra Boujdad, Mario Südholt [coordinator] .
PrivGen (“Privacy-preserving sharing and processing of genetic data”) is a three-year project that has been started in Oct. 2016 and is conducted by three partners: a team of computer scientists from the LATIM Inserm institute in Brest mainly working on data watermarking techniques, a team of geneticians from an Inserm institute in Rennes working on the gathering and interpretation of genetic data, and the Ascola team. The project provides funding of 330 KEUR altogether with an Ascola share of 120 KEUR.
The project considers challenges related to the outsourcing of genetic data that is in the Cloud by different stakeholders (researchers, organizations, providers, etc.). It tackles several limitations of current security solutions in the cloud, notably the lack of support for different security and privacy properties at once and computations executed at different sites that are executed on behalf of multiple stakeholders.
The partners are working on three main challenges:
The Ascola team is mainly involved in providing solutions for the second and third challenges.
SecCloud
Participants : Jacques Noyé [coordinator] , Florent Marchand de Kerchove de Denterghem, Mario Südholt.
The high-level objective of the 3-year SecCloud (Secure Scripting for the Cloud) project is to enhance the security of devices on which web applications can be downloaded, i.e. to enhance client-side security in the context of the Cloud. In order to do so, the project relies on a language-based approach, focusing on three related issues:
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The definition of security policies for web architectures, especially on the client-side.
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Multi-level enforcement mechanisms for the security policies (based on static and dynamic analysis encompassing application-level and system-level software).
ASCOLA members are mainly interested in JavaScript as a programming language as well as the use of aspects as a seamless path from the definition of security policies and their composition to their implementation.
This year, we have finalized our proposal of extensible JavaScript modules and applied it to extend in a modular way the full-blown JavaScript interpreter Narcissus with several dynamic analyses including information-flow analyses.
ANR
SONGS (ANR/INFRA)
Participants : Adrien Lebre [coordinator] , Jonathan Pastor, Anthony Simonet.
The SONGS project (Simulation of Next Generation Systems) is an ANR/INFRA project running for 48 months (starting in January 2012 with an allocated budget of 1.8MEuro, 95KEuro for ASCOLA).
The consortium is composed of 11 academic partners from Nancy (AlGorille, coordinator), Grenoble (MESCAL), Villeurbanne (IN2P3 Computing Center, GRAAL/Avalon - LIP), Bordeaux (CEPAGE, HiePACS, RUNTIME), Strasbourg (ICPS - LSIIT), Nantes (ASCOLA), Nice (MASCOTTE, MODALIS).
The goal of the SONGS project (http://infra-songs.gforge.inria.fr) is to extend the applicability of the SimGrid simulation framework from Grids and Peer-to-Peer systems to Clouds and High Performance Computation systems.
FSN
OpenCloudware (FSN)
Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Thomas Ledoux.
The OpenCloudware project is coordinated by France Telecom, funded by the French Fonds National pour la Société Numérique (FSN, call Cloud n°1) and endorsed by competitiveness clusters Minalogic, Systematic and SCS. OpenCloudware is developed by a consortium of 18 partners bringing together industry and academic leaders, innovative technology start-ups and open source community expertise. The project started in 2012 for a duration of 42 months.
The OpenCloudware project aims at building an open software engineering platform, for the collaborative development of distributed applications to be deployed on multiple Cloud infrastructures. It will be available through a self-service portal. We target virtualized multi-tier applications such as JavaEE - OSGi. The results of OpenCloudware will contain a set of software components to manage the lifecycle of such applications, from modelling(Think), developing and building images (Build), to a multi-IaaS compliant PaaS platform (Run).
The ASCOLA project-team is mainly involved in the sub-projects "Think" (SLA model across Cloud layers) and "Run" (virtual machine manager for datacenters and placement constraints). The team has developed btrCloudStack, a private cloud based on the OpenSource CloudStack and integrating the work on placement rules and energy optimization. This software system has been extended this year.
Hosanna (FSN)
Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Rémy Pottier.
The Hosanna project (aims to scientifically and technically addresses the problem of deploying applications on a distributed multi-cloud virtual infrastructure (private cloud, Amazon, OVH, CloudWatt, Numergy etc.). This recent need is an important topic issue highlighted by recent major Outages in 2013 by the biggest players in the cloud such as Amazon or Netflix. This project aims to provide services that allow users to deploy their cloud multi-tier applications on hybrid Clouds infrastructures without any separation between IaaS. The Ascola team is extending its optimization solution to address the task placement problem in a multi-cloud environment and will develop a case study on a secure distributed file system. The project started in 2015 for a duration of 2 years.
CPER
SeDuCe
Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Adrien Lebre.
The SeDuCe project (Sustainable Data Centers: Bring Sun, Wind and Cloud Back Together), aims to design an experimental infrastructure dedicated to the study of data centers with low energy footprint. This innovative data center will be the first experimental data center in the world for studying the energy impact of cloud computing and the contribution of renewable energy (solar panels, wind turbines) as well on the scientific, technological, that economical. This project is integrated in the national context of grid computing (Grid'5000), and the Constellation project, which will be an inter-node (Pays de la Loire, Brittany). He also participated in the validation of scientific work in interdisciplinary axis STIC and energy efficiency of the laboratory of excellence COMIN Labs.
Inria Project Labs
DISCOVERY
Participants : Ronan Alexandre Rcherreau, Adrien Lebre [coordinator] , Anthony Simonet, Mario Südholt.
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 for future needs.
The DISCOVERY initiative [36] aims at exploring a new way of operating Utility Computing (UC) resources by leveraging any facilities available through the Internet in order to deliver widely distributed platforms that can better match the geographical dispersal of users as well as the ever increasing demand. Critical to the emergence of such locality-based UC (also referred as Fog/Edge Computing) platforms is the availability of appropriate operating mechanisms. The main objective of DISCOVERY is to design, implement, demonstrate and promote a new kind of Cloud Operting System (OS) that will enable the management of such a large-scale and widely distributed infrastructure in an unified and friendly manner.
The consortium is composed of experts in the following research areas: large-scale infrastructure management systems, networking and P2P algorithms. Moreover, two key network operators, namely Orange and RENATER, are involved in the project.
By deploying and using a Fog/Edge OS on backbones, our ultimate vision is to enable large parts of the Internet to be hosted and operated by its internal structure itself: a scalable set of resources delivered by any computing facilities forming the Internet, starting from the larger hubs operated by ISPs, governments and academic institutions, to any idle resources that may be provided by end users.
ASCOLA leads the DISCOVERY IPL and contributes mainly around two axes: VM life cycle management and security concerns.
InriaHub
MERCURY
Participants : Ronan-Alexandre Rcherrueau, Adrien Lebre [coordinator] .
ASCOLA, in particular within the framework of the DISCOVERY initiative has been working on the massively distributed use case since 2013. With the development of several proof-of-concepts around OpenStack, the team has had the opportunity to start an InriaHub action. Named MERCURY, the goal of this action is twofold: (i) support the research development made within the context of DISCOVERY and (ii) favor the transfer toward the OpenStack community.
Further information available at: http://beyondtheClouds.github.io.