Section: Bilateral Contracts and Grants with Industry

Microsoft ZcloudFlow (2013-2017)

Participants : Jalexis Joly, Ji Liu, Esther Pacitti, Patrick Valduriez.

ZcloudFlow is a project in collaboration with the Kerdata team in the context of the Joint Inria–Microsoft Research Centre. It addresses the problem of advanced data storage and processing for supporting scientific workflows in the cloud. The goal is to design and implement a framework for the efficient processing of scientific workflows in clouds. The validation is performed using synthetic benchmarks and real-life applications from bioinformatics on the Microsoft Azure cloud with multiple sites.