Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

F3PC: ANR-JST project (2010–2013)

In this project we mainly collaborate with Tsukuba University, Japan (Gfarm Team). This project is a follow up to several previous collaborations: NEGST (2006–2009): CNRS-JST project. Bilateral PHC (ex-PAI) Sakura project (2006–2007).

INRIA Associate Teams

DataCloud@Work

• Title: Distributed data management for cloud services

• INRIA principal investigator: Gabriel Antoniu

• International Partner:

  • Institution: Politehnica University of Bucharest (UPB, Romania)

  • Laboratory: Distributed Systems Software Laboratory, National Center for Information Technology (NCIT, http://cs.pub.ro/ )

  • Researcher: Valentin Cristea, Professor at UPB

• Duration: 2010–2012

• See also: http://www.irisa.fr/kerdata/doku.php?id=cloud_at_work:start

• Our research topics address the area of distributed data management for cloud services. We aim at investigating several open issues related to autonomic storage in the context of cloud services. The goal is explore how to build an efficient, secure and reliable storage IaaS for data-intensive distributed applications running in cloud environments by enabling an autonomic behavior, while leveraging the advantages of the grid operating system approach.

  Our research activities involve the design and implementation of experimental prototypes based on the following software platforms:

  • The BlobSeer data-sharing platform (designed by the KerData Team)

  • The XtreemOS grid operation system (designed under the leadership of the Myriads Team)

  • The MonALISA monitoring framework (using the expertise of the PUB Team).

Visits of International Scientists

Bunjamin Memishi, Visiting PhD student

Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (UPM), 1 month (April 2011), funded by Universidad Politecnica de Madrid through the SCALUS Marie-Curie Initial Training Network. His thesis is co-advised by Mariá Pérez (UPM) and Gabriel Antoniu (KerData).

Florin Pop, Visiting Postdoc Fellow

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 1 month (June 2011), funded by the DataCloud@work Associate Team.

Ciprian Dobre, Visiting Postdoc Fellow

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 1 month (June 2011), funded by the DataCloud@work Associate Team.

Elena Apostol, Visiting PhD student

Polytechnic University of Bucharest, 3 months (June - August) 2011, funded by the DataCloud@work Associate Team.

Daniel Higuero, Visiting PhD student

Carlos III University, Madrid, 3 months (September-November 2011), funded by Carlos III University, Madrid.

Participation In International Programs

Joint INRIA-UIUC Lab for Petascale Computing (JLPC),

since 2009. Collaboration on concurrency-optimized I/O for post-Petascale platforms (see details in Section  4.1 ). A joint project proposal with the team of Rob Ross (Argonne National Lab) has been submitted in 2011 to the FACCTS call for projects (evaluation pending).