Section: Application Domains

Overview

RESO applies its research to the domains of high performance Cluster, Grid communications and more recently that of cloud networking. Existing GRID applications did already identify potential networking bottlenecks, either caused by conceptual or implementation specific problems, or missing service capabilities. Loss probability, important and incompressible latencies, dynamic behavior of network paths question profoundly models and technic used in parallel and distributed computing [51] . The particular challenge arises from a heavily distributed infrastructure with an ambitious end-to-end service demand. Provisioning end-to-end services with known and knowable characteristics in a large scale networking infrastructure requires a consistent service in an environment that spans multiple administrative and technological domains. The first bottleneck is often located at the interface between the local area network (LAN) and the wide area network (WAN). RESO conducted several actions in the field of Grid High Performance Networking in the context of the OGF, the European or National projects. These activities have been done in close collaboration with other INRIA and CNRS French teams (Grand Large, Mescal, Graal, Pops, Moais) involved in the GRID5000 and the Grid Explorer projects and other European teams involved in pfldnet and Glif communities.