Section: Dissemination

Animation of the scientific community

Leadership, Steering Committees and community service

Ch. Morin

served as the scientific chair of the first Contrail summer school held in Presqu'île de Giens, France from June 27 to July 1st, 2011 (http://contrail-project.eu/summerschool-2011 ).

N. Parlavantzas

was a member of the Organizing Committee of RenPar'20 conference.

J.-L. Pazat

served as the Chair of the Organizing Committee of the RenPar, CFSE and Sympa federated conference series. He is the chairman of the Steering Committee of RenPar http://www.renpar.org/ ).

Th. Priol

is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Intelligent Engineering Informatics and of the International Journal of Web Services Research. He is program vice-chair for ICPP 2012, in charge of the topic “Programming Models, Languages and Environments”. He is is the Chairman of the ServiceWave Steering Committee.

C. Tedeschi

coordinated the organization of the RenPar'20/SympA'14/CFSE 8 joint French-speaking conferences held in Saint-Malo, France, in May 2011.

Program Committees

Ch. Morin

served in the Program Committees of the following conferences: IPDPS 2011, Cluster 2011, SC 2011 (technical papers and posters), VTDC 2011, HPCVirt 2011, Cloud for High Performance Computing Workshop at ICCSA 2011, ISPDC 2011, ServiceWave 2011, CFSE 2011, ISPA 2012, CC-GRID 2012, IPDPS 2012, EuroPar 2012, VTDC 2012.

N. Parlavantzas

served in the Program Committees of RTSOAA 2011 and INFOCOMP 2011 international conferences.

Th. Priol

served in the Program Committees of the following conferences: Cloud 2011, CloudCom 2011, ICWS 2011, ICPP 2012, CCGRID 2012, VECPAR 2012.

C. Tedeschi

is a member of the Program Committees of ICCS 2011, ICCS 2012, AINA 2012 and Closer 2012 international conferences, and was the PC chair of RenPar'20 french-speaking conference.

Evaluation committees, consulting

J.-P. Banâtre

is the Inria representative in the Contrail General Assembly.

Ch. Morin

has served as a member for a selection committee of Lille 1 University and of Ensimag, Grenoble to appoint an assistant Professor in Computer Science. She acted as a referee for the HDR Committee of Jean-Marc Menaud (Ecole des Mines de Nantes), Eric Renault (University of Paris 6) and was a member of the HDR Committee of Laurent Réveillère (University of Bordeaux 1) and as a member for the PhD Committee of Anne-Cécile Orgerie (ENS Lyon). She was a member of the selection committee for the PES (scientific excellence award) for junior and senior researchers at INRIA. She was a member of the IRISA selection committee for the PhD grants. She acted as an expert to review proposals for the French Research Agency (ANR). She acted as expert to review a proposal for a CIFRE PhD grant for the ANRT. She is a member of the cloud computing expert group in the Software & Service Architectures and Infrastructures unit of the European Commission.

Th. Priol

acts as an expert to review FP7 proposals and projects for the European Commission. He is member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the Contrail and VENUS-C FP7 projects. He was also member of the AERES panel of experts to evaluate Institut Télécom.

Conferences, seminars, invitations

R. Cascella

gave a keynote presentation entitled "CONTRAIL: Bringing trust in Clouds" at the 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms (CloudCP) co-located with Eurosys 2011, Salzburg, Austria, 10 Apr. 2011. He gave a talk entitled "Enabling a collaborative environment via the Contrail project", at the Aristote Seminar, Paris, 11 Oct. 2011. He also gave talks on Contrail at the Internet of Service Collaboration Meeting, Brussels, 28 Sep. 2011, at the OW2con Session on Collaborative Projects, Paris Issy les Moulineaux, 24 Nov. 2011, and at the Open World Forum, Session Open Cloud in Europe: When Interoperability Matters, Paris, 22 Sep. 2011.

S. Costache

gave a talk entitled "Virtualization Techniques for Optimal Execution of Applications under Time Constraints", at the PHD Student Day at EDF R&D, Paris, France, November 2011. She gave a seminar entitled "An Economic Approach for Application QoS Management in Clouds" at ORNL and Tennessee Technical University in the framework of the SER-OS associated team, December 2011.

D. Dib

gave a talk entitled "Adaptation dynamique des fonctionnalités d’un système d’exploitation large échelle" at the Adapt workshop, Saint-Malo, May 2010.

E. Feller

gave a talk entitled "Focus group: Energy and QoS-aware Workload Management in Clouds" at a COST IC0804 workshop (http://www.cost804.org/ ), Budapest, Hungary, May 2011. He gave a talk entitled "Energy-Aware Ant Colony Based Workload Placement" at a COST IC0804 workshop (http://www.cost804.org/ ), Thessaloniki, Greece, November 2011. He gave a talk entitled "Towards Agent-Based Energy-Aware Workload Consolidation in Clouds" at the GreenDays meeting (http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/greendaysparis/ ), Paris, France, June 2011. He gave an overview of his research directions at the CominLabs meeting (http://www.cominlabs.ueb.eu/ ), Rennes, France, October 2011.

H. Fernandez

gave a talk on "Chemically-inspired Workflow Management Systems”, at the Vrije University Amsterdam (VUA) on November 17, 2011 during his visit at VUA in the context of the S-Cube Project.

Y. Jégou

gave a talk entitled “Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: Contrail Approach” at the 2^nd WoSS Workshop in Timisoara, Romania in June 2011. He gave a lecture on XtreemOS at the first Contrail summer school on Grid and Cloud computing held in Presqu'île de Giens, France in June 2011. He presented the exploitation of the OVF application format in Contrail at the Open World Forum meeting, Paris in September 2011. He gave a talk entitled “Contrail Cloud Federations” at the OCCI working-group meeting, Lyon in September 2011. He presented XtreemOS system and Contrail project at SC'11, Seattle, USA (November 2011).

A. Lage

presented a talk entitled "A QoS Assurance Framework for Distributed Infrastructures", REDIS research group, Federal University of Pernambuco. Recife, Brazil. May, 2011.

Ch. Morin

gave a talk entitled "From Grids to Federated Clouds: Virtualization of Large-scale Distributed Computing Infrastructures" at a workshop organized for the third anniversary of the INRIA - Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs joint laboratory, Rocquencourt, France, in January 2011. She presented a talk entitled "Le centre INRIA Rennes : un acteur européen dans le domaine des grilles et des clouds" at the AERES evaluation of the INRIA Rennes Bretagne Atlantique research center in February 2011. She was invited to give a seminar entitled "Building Large Scale Dynamic Computing Infrastructures over Clouds" at UC Berkeley and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA in May 2011. She gave an invited talk entitled "Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: Contrail Approach" at the 5th international workshop on Virtualization Technologies in Distributed Computing (VTDC), co-located with HPDC 2011, San Jose, USA, June 2011. She gave a talk entitled "Introduction to Contrail school & Contrail FP7 project" at the first Contrail summer school on Grid and Cloud computing held in Presqu'île de Giens, France in June 2011. She gave a talk entitled " Open Computing Infrastructures for Elastic Services: The Contrail European Project Approach" at the Advanced Computing for Science department seminar at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, USA, in November 2011. She presented Contrail project at SC'11, Seattle, USA (November 2011).

Yann Radenac

gave a talk entitled "XtreemOS and COOP: concepts, use cases and limits" at the COOP bi-annual project meeting, Rennes, France, April 2011.

P. Riteau

gave a talk entitled "Sky Computing on FutureGrid and Grid’5000 with Nimbus" at Journée Cloud France Grilles, ENS Lyon (Lyon, France), December 13, 2010. He gave a talk entitled "Large Scale Sky Computing Applications with Nimbus" at the workshop on High Performance Applications of Cloud and Grid Tools (HPACG) at Argonne National Laboratory (Illinois, USA), April 14, 2011. He gave a talk entitled "Deploying and Using IaaS Clouds on Grid'5000" (with Alexandra Carpen-Amarie and Houssem-Eddine Chihoub), in the Practical Session during the Grid'5000 Spring School 2011, Reims, France April 2011. He gave a talk entitled "Creating Customized Grid'5000 Environments with Chef", in the Practical Session during the Grid'5000 Spring School 2011, Reims, France April 2011. He gave a presentation entitled "Anatomie d'une expérience dimensionnante de Sky Computing" at the Journée tutoriel Grid'5000 (RenPar 2011) , Saint-Malo, France, May 2011. He gave a talk entitled "An Overview of Virtualization Technologies", at the Contrail Summer school 2011, "Presqu'île de Giens", Hyères-les-Palmiers (France), June 2011. He gave a presentation entitled "Virtual Machine Migration", at the Atelier France Grilles - Opérations, IPNL (Lyon, France), October 2011.

Administrative Responsibilities

C. Morin

is a member of the Project-Team Committee of INRIA - Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (Comité des projets).

Jean-Louis Pazat

is the leader of the “Large Scale Systems” department of IRISA. He is member of the Steering committee (conseil d'administration) of Insa Rennes. He is a member of the Computer Science Department committee and member of the IRISA-INSA Lab committe. He is the local coordinator for the international exchange of students at the computer science department of Insa.

T. Priol

is Scientific Deputy Director at INRIA, responsible for monitoring all research, development, transfer and partnership activities in the thematic areas of Networks and Telecommunication, Distributed and High Performance Computing, Distributed Systems and Services. He was the Research Director of EIT ICT Labs till October 2011.

P. Riteau

was elected member of the INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Center Council (Comité de Centre).

C. Tedeschi

was elected as a member of the administration council of the EECS departement of the University of Rennes 1.

Misc.

Piyush Harsh

animates the Interoperability Working Group created on the OpenNebula ecosystem by INRIA and UCM.

Christine Morin

participated in the "A la découverte de la recherche" action presenting her researcher profession to a class at lycée Jean Macé (high school) in Rennes, France (March 2011).