Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

COOP

We participate to a research proposal to the ANR Cosinus program called “COOP” which was granted a three-year funding (dec. 2009 – dec. 2012). It aims at establishing generic cooperation mechanisms between resource management, runtime systems, and application programming frameworks to simplify programming models, and improve performance through adaptation to the resources. It involves academic partners and EDF R&D. (http://coop.gforge.inria.fr/ )

FP3C

We participate to the joint ANR-JST project FP3C (Framework and Programming for Post Petascale Computing). The goal of this project is to contribute to establish software technologies, languages and programming models to explore extreme performance computing beyond petascale computing, on the road to exascale computing.

ProHMPT

Participants : Cédric Augonnet, Olivier Aumage, Denis Barthou, Andres Charif-Rubial, Jérôme Clet-Ortega, Nathalie Furmento, Raymond Namyst, Ludovic Stordeur, François Tessier, Samuel Thibault, Pierre-André Wacrenier.

We lead a research proposal to the ANR Cosinus program called “ProHMPT” which was granted a three-year funding (jan. 2009 – jun. 2012). It aims at focusing the joint research work of several teams about compilers, runtimes and libraries on programming heterogeneous platforms such as GPU and accelerators. It involves academic partners, companies (Bull, CAPS entreprise) and CEA teams. Olivier Aumage is the head of the ANR ProHMPT project. (http://runtime.bordeaux.inria.fr/prohmpt/ )

Hemera

The runtime team is member of the large wigspan project Hémera started in 2010, that aims at demonstrating ambitious up-scaling techniques for large scale distributed computing by carrying out several dimensioning experiments on the Grid’5000 infrastructure, at animating the scientific community around Grid’5000 and at enlarging the Grid’5000 community by helping newcomers to make use of Grid’5000. It is not restricted to INRIA teams.

MEDIAGPU

We participate to a research proposal to the ANR CONTINT program called “MEDIAGPU” which was granted a 30-month funding (jan. 2010 - jun. 2012). It will develop a software architecture and will review and adapt a number of classical multimedia algorithms, considering the latest advances offered by the new hardware architectures, such as combinations of CPUs and GPUs (http://picoforge.int-evry.fr/projects/mediagpu/ ).