Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

Guillaume Aupy was the Technical Program vice-chair of SC'17. This is the main conference of the field gathering more than $12,700$ attendees (practictionners, industrials and researchers) from 79 different nationalities. It is the first time someone from Inria is in charge of the technical program in 30 years of the conference. The Technical Program of SC17 comprises of 13 different elements (papers, workshops, panels, invited talks etc), for a total of 880 submissions from about 2900 unique individuals! 370 different volunteers participated in the review process of one or multiple elements of the Technical Program.

Guillaume Mercier is the chairman of the Hardware Topologies Management Working Group of the MPI Forum. This working group was created officially in December by Inria's impulse and has been rallied since by many institutions taking part in the MPI Forum. The goal of this working group is to standardize hardware topologies management mechanisms and abstractions in the MPI standard.