Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

Inria-UIUC-NCSA Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing

Participants : Eddy Caron, Hélène Coullon, Olivier Glück, Vincent Lanore, Laurent Lefèvre, Christian Perez.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Inria, the French national computer science institute, Argonne National Laboratory, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Jülich Supercomputing Centre and the Riken Advanced Institute for Computational Science formed the Joint Laboratory on Extreme Scale Computing, a follow-up of the Inria-Illinois Joint Laboratory for Petascale Computing. The Joint Laboratory is based at Illinois and includes researchers from Inria, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, ANL, BSC and JSC. It focuses on software challenges found in extreme scale high-performance computers.

Informal International Partners

• Université Gaston Berger, Saint Louis, Sénégal. Contact: Pr. Ousmane Thiaré.

• École Centrale Mahindra, Hyderabad, India. Contact: Dr. Arya Kumar Bhattacharya.

Participation In other International Programs

GreenTouch

Participants : Jean-Patrick Gelas, Laurent Lefèvre.

GreenTouch is a consortium of leading Information and Communications Technology (ICT) industry, academic and non-governmental research experts dedicated to fundamentally transforming communications and data networks, including the Internet, and significantly reducing the carbon footprint of ICT devices, platforms and networks. The GreenTouch project has ended in June 2015 through the dissemination and demonstration of main results during a final celebration in New York. Our activities on designing virtual home gateway at large scale have been demonstrated.