Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Laurent Lefevre was :

  • Co-Workshop chair of Xgreen 2016 : Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, Cartagena, Colombia, May 2016

  • Co-chair of the Special Session on Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations during PDP2016 : 24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing, Heraklion, Greece, February 17-19, 2016

• Christian Perez was co-chair of the Topic 8 of Euro-Par 2016.

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Eddy Caron was:

  • Co-organizer of SC16 Inria Booth at Salt Lake City (Utah). November 13-18, 2016.

  • Co-organizer of SSS'2016 (The 18th International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems), Lyon, November 7-10, 2016.

  • Co-organizer of OpenStack WorkShop Lyon 2016 at ENS de Lyon. June 15, 2016.

• Hélène Coullon and Christian Perez were members of the organization team of the 5th workshop of the Joint Laboratory for Extreme Scale Computing, Lyon, 27-29 June 2016.

• Laurent Lefevre was :

  • Co-organizer of SC16 Inria Booth at Salt Lake City (Utah). November 13-18, 2016.

  • Co-organizer of the Ecoinfo conference on Eco-design of hardware", Grenoble, September 27, 2016

  • Co-organizer of the Atelier Compas 2016 : Economiser l'énergie dans les systèmes distribués, July 5, 2016 with Anne-Cécile Orgerie (IRISA, Rennes)

  • Co-organizer of the E3-RSD school on Energy Efficiency in Networks and Distributed Systems, Dinard, May 23-27, 2016 with Anne-Cécile Orgerie (IRISA, Rennes)

  • Tutorial Chair in CCGrid 2016: the 16th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Cartagena, Colombia, May 2016

• Frédéric Suter was the co-organizer of the 6th edition of the SimGrid Users Days, Fréjus, January 18-21, 2016.

Scientific Events Selection

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Eddy Caron was a member of the program committee of HCW'2016, ICACCI-2016, Xgreen 2016, CloudTech'16, CCGRID'2016

• Gilles Fedak was a member of the program committee of InterCloud'2016, CLoudCom'2016, Cluster 2016, Compass 2016, HPDC 2016, ICCCN'2016, ICPADS'2016.

• Olivier Glück was a member of the program committee of PDP 2016 (24th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing) and the Xgreen2016 workshop of CCGrid 2016.

• Christian Perez was a member of the Workshop Committee at the 2016 ACM/IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC16). He was a member of the program committee of the Grid'5000 winter School 2016. He served in the committee to select Outstanding Paper Award of HPCS 2016.

• Frédéric Suter was a member of the program committee of Vecpar 2016, ICCS 2016, ComPas 2016 and EuroMPI 2016

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• G. Fedak: Co-editor of Elsevier Journal of Cluster Computing

Invited Talks

Laurent Lefevre has been invited to give the following talks :

• "Reducing environmental impacts of ICT : challenges and solutions", Invited talk in "Agence de l'Eau Rhône Méditerranée et Corse", Lyon, December 15, 2016

• "Ecological digital world, is it possible ? / Numérique écologique, est ce possible ?", Invited Keynote for Université Ouverte de Lyon, Lyon, France, November 29, 2016

• "Grid'5000: French Nationwide Testbed for Research in Distributed Computing", Laurent Lefevre, BOF on Experimental Infrastructure and Methodology for HPC Cloud, Supercomputing 2016 Conference, Salt Lake City, USA, November 15, 2016

• "GreenFactory : orchestrating power capabilities and leverages at large scale for energy efficient infrastructures", Laurent Lefevre, CCDSC2016: Workshop on Clusters, Clouds, and Data for Scientific Computing, Dareize, France, October 3-6, 2016

• "Full life cycle in sustainable ICT for reaching energy reduction, energy efficiency and energy proportionality", Laurent Lefevre, Invited keynote talk, IEEE Tenth International Conference on Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS2016) & Inforsid conference, Grenoble France, June 3, 2016

Gilles Fedak has been invited to give the following talks:

• “iEx.ec: Blockchain-based Cloud Computing”, Inria Blockchain Day, Paris, December 12, 2016

• “Active Data: Large scale data management based on data life cycle”, Journée Big Data de la Fédération Informatique de Lyon, December 9, 2016

• “Active Data, managing Data Life Cycle on heterogeneous systems and infrastructures”, Workshop Data preservation (PREDON) of the MADICS research group on Big Data, Paris, CNRS, December 2, 2016

• “Blockchain applications are coming, what's next” Panel at the workshop ParisInvest, HEC, December 1st, 2016

• “iEx.ec: Blockchain-based Distributed Cloud Computing”, Chaintech Meetup, Paris, November 29, 2016

• “iEx.ec: un Cloud distribué basé sur la blockchain”, CES-3 Innovation Forum, Paris, 29 Septembre 2016

• “iEx.ec: un Cloud distribué basé sur la blockchain”, EDF research Lab, Saclay, 28 Septembre 2016

• “iEx.ec: Blockchain-based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing”,CAS Shanghai University, Shanghai, September 23, 2016

• “iEx.ec: Fully Distributed Cloud Computing thanks to the Ethereum Smart Contracts”, Ethereum Developper Conference, Shanghai, September 21, 2016

• “iEx.ec: Blockchain-based Fully Distributed Cloud Computing”, CNIC Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, September 18, 2016

• "Relocaliser les data-centers dans la ville intelligente grâce à la blockchain" Smart Building Alliance, Lyon, France September 15, 2016

Frédéric Suter has been invited to give the following talk:

• "Modeling Distributed Platforms from Application Traces for Realistic File Transfer Simulation", Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, December 21, 2016.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Laurent Lefevre is Animator and chair of the transversal action on "Energy" of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués")

• Christian Perez is co-leader of the pole Distributed Systems of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués").

Scientific Expertise

• Eddy Caron reviewed a project for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

• Olivier Glück is member of the CNU (Conseil National des Universités) section 27 (Computer Science). He participated to the 2016 "Qualifications" session.

• Olivier Glück evaluated a Ph.D. CIFRE proposal (industrial funded PhD student).

• Christian Perez reviewed a project for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

Research Administration

• Eddy Caron is a member of the Inria's CDT (Commission de Développement Technologique) from Inria Rhone-Alpes center.

• Eddy Caron is the corresponding researcher “valorisation/transfert” in the Labex MILyon for the LIP laboratory.

• Olivier Glück is member of the "Conseil Académique" of Lyon 1 and Lyon University. He is also member of the "Conseil de la Faculté des Sciences et Technologies" of Lyon 1 University.

• Christian Perez is a member of the committee selection of the project call from the Rhône-Alpes region ARC6 (France). He is also a member of the Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Strategic Orientation Committee.