Section: Overall Objectives

Highlights of the Year

• Eugen Feller has been awarded the second PhD prize of the MATISSE doctoral school by the Fondation Rennes 1 in March 2013 for his thesis entitled Autonomic and Energy-Efficient Management of Large-Scale Virtualized Data Centers  [53] defended in December 2012 under the supervision of Christine Morin.

• Matthieu Simonin, Eugen Feller, Yvon Jégou, David Margery, Christine Morin and Anne-Cécile Orgerie have been awarded the second prize at the Scale Challenge organized with the ACM/IEEE CC-Grid 2013 conference held in Delft, the Netherlands in May 2013. They demonstrated the scalability and resilience of Snooze IaaS management system [26] , developed as part of Eugen Feller's PhD thesis and that has been supported by an Inria technology development action since October 2012.

• The paper entitled Resilin: Elastic MapReduce over Multiple Clouds presented by Ancuta Iordache was amongst the three best paper finalists at the CCGRID'2013 conference  [31] .