Section: Highlights of the Year

Highlights of the Year

• Christine Morin has been made Knight of the French legion of Honour by decret of the President of French Republic (December 31, 2014) for her contribution to Higher Education and Research. Antoine Petit, President of Inria, presented her with the insignia on February 24th, 2015.

• The HARNESS European project was successfully completed in September 2015. Although the final evaluation report is still pending, the verbal comments by project reviewers were very positive. The HARNESS project has developed a new generation cloud computing platform that integrates heterogeneous hardware (FPGAs, GPGPUs, programmable routers, etc.) and networking resources in order to provide vastly increased performance for a broader array of applications. With HARNESS, cloud providers can profitably manage specialized hardware and network technologies much as they do today's commodity resources, and software engineers can seamlessly integrate them into the design of their cloud‐hosted applications.