Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
International Initiatives
Inria International Labs
Inria Chile
Associate Team involved in the International Lab:
ARMADA
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International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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See also: http://web.inria-armada.org
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The ARMADA project aims at designing and implementing a reliable framework for the management and processing of massive dynamic dataflows. The project is two-pronged: fault-tolerant middleware support for processing massive continuous input, and a redundant storage service for mutable data on a massive scale.
Participation in Other International Programs
CNRS-Inria-FAP's
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Title: Autonomic and Scalable Algorithms for Building Resilient Distributed Systems
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International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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In the context of autonomic computing systems that detect and diagnose problems, self-adapting themselves, the VCube (Virtual Cube), proposed by Prof. Elias Duarte , is a distributed diagnosis algorithm that organizes the system nodes on a virtual hypercube topology. VCube has logarithmic properties: when all nodes are fault-free, processes are virtually connected to form a perfect hypercube; as soon as one or more failures are detected, links are automatically reconnected to remove the faulty nodes and the resulting topology, connecting only fault-free nodes, keeps the logarithmic properties. The goal of this project is to exploit the autonomic and logarithmic properties of the VCube by proposing self-adapting and self-configurable services.
Capes-Cofecub
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Title: CHOOSING - Cooperation on Hybrid cOmputing clOuds for energy SavING
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International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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The cloud computing is an important factor for environmentally sustainable development. If, in the one hand, the increasing demand of users drive the creation of large datacenters, in the other hand, cloud computing's “multitenancy” trait allows the reduction of physical hardware and, therefore, the saving of energy. Thus, it is imperative to optimize the energy consumption corresponding to the datacenter's activities. Three elements are crucial on energy consumption of a cloud platform: computation (processing), storage and network infrastructure. Therefore, the aim of this project is to provide different techniques to reduce energy consumption regarding these three elements. Our work mainly focuses on energy saving aspects based on virtualization, i.e., pursuing the idea of the intensive migration of classical storage/processing systems to virtual ones. We will study how different organizations (whose resources are combined as hybrid clouds) can cooperate with each other in order to minimize the energy consumption without the detriment of client requirements or quality of service. Then, we intend to propose efficient algorithmic solutions and design new coordination mechanisms that incentive cloud providers to collaborate.
Spanish research ministry project
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Title: BFT-DYNASTIE - Byzantine Fault Tolerance: Dynamic Adaptive Services for Partitionable Systems
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International Partners (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):
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The project BFT-DYNASTIE is aimed at extending the model based on the alternation of periods of stable and unstable behavior to all aspects of fault-tolerant distributed systems, including synchrony models, process and communication channel failure models, system membership, node mobility, and network partitioning. The two main and new challenges of this project are: the consideration of the most general and complex to address failure model, known as Byzantine, arbitrary or malicious, which requires qualified majorities and the use of techniques form the security area; and the operation of the system in partitioned mode, which requires adequate reconciliation mechanisms when two partitions merge.