Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

CESSA: Compositional Evolution of Secure Services with Aspects (ANR/ARPEGE)

Participants : Mario Südholt [coordinator] , Diana Allam, Rémi Douence, Hervé Grall, Jean-Claude Royer.

The project CESSA is an (industrial) ANR project running for 3 years months, with funding amounting to 290 KEUR for ASCOLA from Jan. 10 on. Three other partners collaborate within the project that is coordinated by ASCOLA: a security research team from Eurecom, Sophia-Antipolis, the Security and Trust team from SAP Labs, also located at Sophia-Antipolis, and IS2T, an innovative start-up company developing middleware technologies located at Nantes. The project deals with security in service-oriented architectures.

This year our group has contributed several scientific publications as part of the project. All partners have been involved in the publication of a unifying model for WD*/SOAP-based and RESTful web services. Furthermore, we have formally defined a type system that is safe in the presence of malicious attackers and insecure communication channels.

All information is available from the CESSA web site: http://cessa.gforge.inria.fr .

Entropy (ANR/Emergence)

Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Thomas Ledoux, Adrien Lèbre.

The Entropy project is an (industrial) ANR/Emergence project running for 18 months. It was accepted in December 2010 for funding amounting to 242 KEUR (ASCOLA only).

The objective of this project is to conduct studies on economic feasibility (market, status, intellectual property, website) for creating a industrial business on the Entropy software.

Some task must complete the Entropy core solution with a graphical unit interface to produce convincing demonstrators and consolidate our actual and future results. At the end of the project, the goal is to create a company whose objective is to sell the service, support and software building blocks developed by this ANR Emergence project.

MyCloud (ANR/ARPEGE)

Participants : Thomas Ledoux [coordinator] , Jean-Marc Menaud, Yousri Kouki, Frederico Alvares.

The MyCloud project is an ANR/ARPEGE project running for 42 months, starting in Nov. 2010. It was accepted in Jul. 2010 for funding amounting to 190 KEUR (ASCOLA only). MyCloud involves a consortium with three academic partners (Inria, LIP6, EMN) and one industrial partner (We Are Cloud).

Cloud Computing provides a convenient means of remote on-demand and pay-per-use access to computing resources. However, its ad-hoc management of quality-of-service (QoS)and SLA poses significant challenges to the performance, dependability and costs of online cloud services.

The objective of MyCloud (http://mycloud.inrialpes.fr ) is to define and implement a novel cloud model: SLAaaS (SLA as a Service). The SLAaaS model enriches the general paradigm of Cloud Computing and enables systematic and transparent integration of SLA to the cloud. From the cloud provider's point of view, MyCloud proposes autonomic SLA management to handle performance, availability, energy and cost issues in the cloud. From the cloud customer's point of view, MyCloud provides SLA governance allowing cloud customers to be part of the loop and to be automatically notified about the state of the cloud, such as SLA violation and cloud energy consumption.

This year, the ASCOLA project-team has proposed (i) CSLA, a novel language to describe QoS-oriented SLA associated with cloud services [23] ; (ii) a SLA-driven capacity planning for cloud applications [24] .

SONGS (ANR/INFRA)

Participants : Adrien Lèbre [coordinator] , Flavien Quesnel, Jonathan Pastor.

The SONGS project (Simulation of Next Generation Systems) is an ANR/INFRA project running for 48 months (starting from January 2012 with an allocated budget of 1.8MEuro, 95KEuro for ASCOLA).

The consortium is composed of 11 academic partners from Nancy (AlGorille, coordinator), Grenoble (MESCAL), Villeurbanne (IN2P3 Computing Center, GRAAL/Avalon - LIP), Bordeaux (CEPAGE, HiePACS, RUNTIME), Strasbourg (ICPS - LSIIT), Nantes (ASCOLA), Nice (MASCOTTE, MODALIS).

The goal of the SONGS project (http://infra-songs.gforge.inria.fr ) is to extend the applicability of the SimGrid simulation framework from Grids and Peer-to-Peer systems to Clouds and High Performance Computation systems. Each type of large-scale computing system will be addressed through a set of use cases and lead by researchers recognized as experts in this area. The ASCOLA involvement will start in 2013 with the arrival of Takahiro Hirofuchi from the AIST institute in Japan.

FUI

Cool-IT (FUI)

Participant : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] .

The Cool-IT project is an (industrial) FUI project running for 24 months. It was accepted in September 2010 for funding amounting to 130 KEUR (ASCOLA only).

The objective of this project is to design systems adapted to new standards of "Green IT" to reduce the data centers electrical consumption.

To this end, the COOL IT project will develop processes for cooling computer servers, optimize the server power chain supply, implement tools and methods of collecting energy data in real time, and specify methods for controlling the data centers consumption as a tradeoff between the computational power needed, the availability, and the energy consumption.

FSN

OpenCloudware (FSN)

Participants : Jean-Marc Menaud [coordinator] , Thomas Ledoux, Yousri Kouki.

The OpenCloudware project is coordinated by France Telecom, funded by the French Fonds National pour la Société Numérique (FSN, call Cloud n°1) and endorsed by competitiveness clusters Minalogic, Systematic and SCS. OpenCloudware is developed by a consortium of 18 partners bringing together industry and academic leaders, innovative technology start-ups and open source community expertise. Duration: 36 months - 2012-2014.

The OpenCloudware project aims at building an open software engineering platform, for the collaborative development of distributed applications to be deployed on multiple Cloud infrastructures. It will be available through a self-service portal. We target virtualized multi-tier applications such as JavaEE - OSGi. The results of OpenCloudware will contain a set of software components to manage the lifecycle of such applications, from modelling(Think), developing and building images (Build), to a multi-IaaS compliant PaaS platform (Run).

The ASCOLA project-team is mainly involved in the sub-projects "Think" (SLA model accross Cloud layers) and "Run" (virtual machine manager for datacenters and placement constraints).