Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific events organisation

General chair, scientific chair

TADaaM has organized the 22nd European MPI Users' Group Meeting, also known as EuroMPI. EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI).

TADaaM has also organized the MPI Forum meeting that took place just after the EuroMPI conference.

Member of the steering committee

Emmanuel Jeannot is member of the steering committee of Euro-Par and the Cluster international conference.

Scientific events selection

Chair of conference program committees

Alexandre Denis , Brice Goglin , Emmanuel Jeannot and Guillaume Mercier acted as Program Co-chairs as well as Proceeding Editors of Euro-MPI 2015.

Member of the conference program committees

Brice Goglin was a member of the program committee of HotInterconnect 23, EuroMPI 2015.

Emmanuel Jeannot was a member of the program committee of IPDPS'2015, PPAM 2015, EuroMPI 2015, Heteropar'2015, Compas 201, HiPC'15

Alexandre Denis was a member of the program committee of HeteroPar 2015, HiPC'15, EuroMPI 2015, and Compas'15.

Guillaume Mercier was a member of the program committee of EuroMPI 2015.

Reviewer

Emmanuel Jeannot was reviewer of SuperComputing.

Alexandre Denis was a reviewer for CCGrid'2015.

Guillaume Mercier was a reviewer for IPDPS 2015.

Journal

Member of the editorial boards

Emmanuel Jeannot is associate editor of the International Journal of Parallel, Emergent and Distributed Systems

Editing activities

Emmanuel Jeannot edited the special issue following the HeteroPar 2014, APCIE 2014, and TASUS 2014 workshops [9] .

Reviewer - Reviewing activities

Brice Goglin was a reviewer for the IEEE Micro journal.

Guillaume Mercier was a reviewer for the Simulation and Modelling Practice and Theory Journal (SIMPAT) and Parallel Computing (PARCO)

Emmanuel Jeannot was a reviewer for IEEE TPDS, Parallel Computing, JPDC, ACM TACO

François Pellegrini was a reviewer for Parallel Computing.

Invited talks

Alexandre Denis gave a talk about overlap of communication and computation at CEA/DAM.

Brice Goglin gave a talk about managing locality in hierarchical computing platforms at Maison de la Simulation.

Emmanuel Jeannot gave an invited talk system-scale optimisation of HPC applications at the PADAL workshop in Berkeley (https://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/padal-workshop/padal15 ).

Emmanuel Jeannot gave an invited talk on topology-aware data management at the Sandia National Lab working group.

Emmanuel Jeannot gave the keynote speech at the Heteropar'2015 workshop in Vienna.

François Pellegrini was invited to participate in a round table on the law of the Internet of things at the Law faculty of Université d'Aix-Marseille.

François Pellegrini gave an invited talk on legal aspects of software creation during the Journées nationales du GDR “Génie de la Programmation et du Logiciel” (http://gdr-gpl.cnrs.fr/node/196 ) in Bordeaux.

François Pellegrini gave an invited talk on legal aspects of software creation during the Journées du réseau du développement logiciel (DevLOG) (http://devlog.cnrs.fr/jdev2015/t4 ) in Bordeaux.

François Pellegrini was invited to participate in a round table on the use of personal data for the personalization of healthcare treatments, in the context of the 3^rd Rencontres du droit et de l'innovation held by the Forum Montesquieu in Bordeaux.

François Pellegrini was invited to give a talk on Big data and personal data, in the context of the Juriconnexion meetings (http://www.juriconnexion.fr/programme-de-la-journee-du-8-decembre-2015-2/ ), at École française du Barreau, in Issy-les-Moulineaux.

Scientific expertise

Emmanuel Jeannot was member of the hiring committee for the professor position in computer science of the university of Bordeaux.

François Pellegrini is a commissioner at CNIL, the French data privacy supervision authority, where he has been appointed by the President of the French Senate in December 2013.

François Pellegrini , as a commissioner at CNIL, is the representative for France in the data privacy supervision bodies of several European organizations that process personal data (Europol, the Schengen information system, etc.). He has been appointed as technical expert for on-site inspection missions of such data processing systems.

Standardization Activities

TADaaM attends the MPI Forum meetings on behalf of Inria (where the MPI standard for communication in parallel applications is developed and maintained).

Tutorials

Brice Goglin gave tutorials about managing hardware affinities on hierarchical platforms with hwloc during a PRACE Advanced Training Center session and during EuroMPI. He also gave a hands-on session on advance uses of the GIT version control system in Inria Bordeaux internal seminars.

Emmanuel Jeannot gave a tutorial about optimizing process placement with TreeMatch during a PRACE Advanced Training Center session.

Research administration

Emmanuel Jeannot is member of the scientific council of the Labex IRMIA (Université de Strasbourg).

Emmanuel Jeannot is the head of the young researcher commission of Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest in charge of supervising the hiring of the PhDs and post-doc of the center.

François Pellegrini is deputy vice-president of Université de Bordeaux in charge of digital issues. In this context, he participates in the definition and implementation of policies regarding aspects of research such as the development of the academic computing center of the Bordeaux area (MCIA), relationships with other universities (UPPA, Université de La Rochelle), etc.