Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

Joint-Lab on Extreme Scale Computing (JLESC):

• Coordinators: Franck Cappello and Marc Snir.

• Other partners: Argonne National Lab, University of Urbanna Champaign, Tokyo Riken, Jülich Supercomputing Center, Barcelona Supercomputing Center.

• Abstract: The Joint Laboratory is based at Illinois and includes researchers from Inria, and the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, ANL, Riken, Jülich, and BSC. It focuses on software challenges found in extreme scale high-performance computers.

Inria International Partners

Declared Inria International Partners

• Partner 1: AMD Research

• Subject 1: Managing locality in the Heterogeneous System Architecture.

• AMD provided hardware and details about its future architectures and programming models (HSA) to improve locality support for its products in the hwloc software.

Informal International Partners

• Partner 1: ICL at University of Tennessee

• Subject 1: on instrumenting MPI applications and modeling platforms (works on HWLOC take place in the context of the OPEN MPI consortium) and MPI and process placement

• Partner 2: Cisco Systems

• Subject 2: network topologies and platform models

• Partner 3: University of Tokyo and RIKEN

• Subject 3: Adaptation of MPI and runtime systems to lightweight kernels used on clusters of manycores. This action has been submitted as a JLESC project proposal, currently beeing evaluated.

• Partner 4: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

• Subject 4: Testing of the mapping features of Scotch on very large process graphs (more than two billion vertices) and very large target architectures (more than 200,000 parts).

• Partner 5: Sandia National Lab

• Subject 5: Topology-aware management and allocation of computing resources in runtime systems.