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A4Cloud: Accountability for the Cloud (Integrated Project)
Participants : Mario Südholt [coordinator] , Omar Chebaro, Ronan-Alexandre Cherrueau, Rémi Douence, Hervé Grall, Jean-Claude Royer.
The A4Cloud project is an integrated EU project, coordinated by HP, UK, on the topic of accountability, that is, the responsible stewardship of private data, in the Cloud. This 42-months project started in Oct. 2012 and Ascola's funding amounts to 600 KEuro.
The project involves 13 partners: in addition to HP, two enterprises (SAP AG, Germany; ATC, Greece), a non-governmental organisation (the Cloud Security Alliance, CSA) and 9 universities and research organisations (EMNantes and Eurecom, France; HFU. Furtwangen, Germany; Karlstadt U., Sweden; U. Malaga, Spain; Queen Mary U., U.K.; U. Stavanger and Sintef, Norway; Tilburg U., The Netherlands).
A4Cloud will create solutions to support users in deciding and tracking how their data is used by cloud service providers. By combining methods of risk analysis, policy enforcement, monitoring and compliance auditing with tailored IT mechanisms for security, assurance and redress, A4Cloud aims to extend accountability across entire cloud service value chains, covering personal and business sensitive information in the cloud.
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7
SCALUS: SCALing by means of Ubiquitous Storage (MC ITN)
Participants : Adrien Lèbre [coordinator] , Mario Südholt, Gustavo Bervian Brand.
The vision of the Scalus Marie Curie international training network (MC ITN) is to deliver the foundation for ubiquitous storage systems, which can be scaled with respect to multiple characteristics (capacity, performance, distance, security, ...).
Providing ubiquitous storage will become a major demand for future IT systems and leadership in this area can have significant impact on European competitiveness in IT technology. To get this leadership, it is necessary to invest into storage education and research and to bridge the current gap between local storage, cluster storage, grid storage, and cloud storage. The consortium will proceed into this direction by building the first interdisciplinary teaching and research network on storage issues. It consists of top European institutes and companies in storage and cluster technology, building a demanding but rewarding interdisciplinary environment for young researchers.
The network involves the following partners: University of Paderborn (Germany, coordinator), Barcelona Super Computing (Spain), University of Durham (England), University of Frankfurt (Germany), ICS-FORTH (Greece), Universidad Polytecnica de Madrid (Spain), EMN/ARMINES (France), Inria Rennes Bretagne Atlantique (France), XLAB (Slovenia), University of Hamburg (Germany), Fujistu Technology Systems (Germany).
The overall funding of the project by the European Union is closed to 3,3 MEUR. ASCOLA's share amounts to 200 KEUR.
COST IC0804
Program: Energy efficiency in large sclae distributed systems
Project title: Energy efficiency in large scale distributed systems
Participating countries: AT, BE, CH, CY, DE, DK, EE, FI, FR, GR, HU, IE, IL, IT, LU, PL, PT, RO, SE, SP, TR, UK,
Abstract: The COST IC 0840 Action will propose realistic energy-efficient alternate solutions to share IT distributed resources. As large scale distributed systems gather and share more and more computing nodes and storage resources, their energy consumption is drastically increasing. While much effort is nowadays put into hardware specific solutions to lower energy consumptions, the need for a complementary approach is necessary at the distributed system level, i.e. middleware, networks and applications. The action will characterize the energy consumption and energy efficiencies of distributed applications. http://www.cost804.org/