Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

• Laboratorio Nacional de Computaçao Cientifica, Petropolis (Brazil) - Fabio Porto

• Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Alvaro Coutinho and Marta Mattoso

• Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niteroi (Brazil) - Daniel Oliveira

• Centro Federal de Educa cao Tecnologica, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) - Eduardo Ogasawara

Duration: 2014 - 2016

See also: https://team.inria.fr/zenith/projects/international-projects/music/

By centralizing all data in a large-scale data center, the cloud significantly simplifies the task of system administration. But for scientific data, where different organizations may have their own data centers, a distributed (multisite) cloud model where each site is visible from outside, is needed. The main objective of this research and scientific collaboration is to develop a multisite cloud architecture for managing and analyzing scientific data, including support for heterogeneous data; distributed scientific workflows, and complex big data analysis. The resulting architecture will enable scalable data management infrastructures that can be used to host a variety of scientific applications that benefit from computing, storage, and networking resources that span multiple data centers.

• North America: Univ. of Waterloo (Tamer Özsu), UCSB Santa Barbara (Divy Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi)

• Asia: National Univ. of Singapore (Beng Chin Ooi, Stéphane Bressan), Wonkwang University, Korea (Kwangjin Park)

• Europe: Univ. of Madrid (Ricardo Jiménez-Periz), UPC Barcelona (Josep Lluis Larriba Pey), HES-SO (Henning Müller), University of Catania (Concetto Spampinatto), The Open University (Stefan Rüger)

• North Africa: Univ. of Tunis (Sadok Ben-Yahia)

• Australia: Australian National University (Peter Christen)

• Central America: Technologico de Costa-Rica (Erick Mata, former director of the US initiative Encyclopedia of Life)