Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

National Initiatives

ANR

MapReduce (2010–2014).

An ANR project (ARPEGE 2010) with international partners, which focuses on optimized Map-Reduce data processing on cloud platforms. This project started in October 2010 in collaboration with Argonne National Lab, the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, the UIUC/Inria Joint Lab on Petascale Computing, IBM, IBCP, MEDIT and the GRAAL Inria Project-Team. URL: http://mapreduce.inria.fr/ .

ADT

ADT BlobSeer (2013–2014).

To support the development of the BlobSeer software for ongoing cooperations, Inria provided support for a research engineer. Loïc Cloatre has been hired as a senior engineer for the second year of this project, starting in February 2014.

Other National projects

HEMERA (2010–2014).

An Inria Large Wingspan Project, started in 2010. Within Hemera, G. Antoniu (KerData Inria Team) and Gilles Fedak (GRAAL Inria Project-Team) co-lead the Map-Reduce scientific challenge.

KerData also co-initiated a working group called Efficient management of very large volumes of information for data-intensive applications, co-led by G. Antoniu and Jean-Marc Pierson (IRIT, Toulouse).

Grid'5000.

We are members of the Grid'5000 community: we make experiments on the Grid'5000 platform on a daily basis.