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Section: Partnerships and Cooperations
European Initiatives
Collaborations in European Programs, except FP7
Abstract: The goal is to explore how flash devices, operating system and database system can be designed together to improve overall performance. Such a co-design is particularly important for the next generation database appliances, or cloud-based relational database systems for which well-suited flash components must be specified. More generally, our goal is to influence the evolution of flash devices and commodity database systems for the benefit of data intensive applications. The project should result in two complementary open-source software systems: (i) a bimodal flash device software component based on the idea from [6] , and (ii) a database system optimized for bimodal flash devices. The project funding will be managed by the IT University of Copenhagen and will cover the expenses for two co-supervised PhD students (including regular visits to and from Denmark).
Collaborations with Major European Organizations
The SMIS members have developed tight european cooperations with the following persons/teams:
P. Bonnet (Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark): collaboration on Flash-based data management for high-end servers. The study of flash devices started during a short sabbatical of Luc Bouganim (from April to August 2008) in Copenhagen. The uFLIP study has been conducted in close cooperation with Philippe Bonnet from IT University of Copenhagen and Björn Þór Jónsson from Reykjavík University. The cooperation with Copenhagen is very active and led to new studies on flash devices and on the Trusted Cell architecture Two PhD students are currently co-supervised by Luc Bouganim and Philippe Bonnet. Philippe Bonnet got a Marie-Curie IEF grant and will visit SMIS for one year in 2013-2014.
Michalis Vazirgiannis (Athens University of Economics and Business): collaboration on Minimal Exposure in the context of Michalis' Digiteo Chair at LIX (Ecole Polytechnique).