Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

• Laurent Lefèvre was

  • co-chair of the colloquium : "Towards a sustainable digital society : from Clouds to Connected Objects", with Centre Jacques Cartier and Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, October 2017

  • co-chair of the PEAC 2017 Workshop on "Power and Energy Aspects of Computations", held in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics, PPAM 2017, Lublin, Poland, September 2017

  • track co-chair of the ICA3PP 2017 conference: 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing, for the track Distributed and Network-based Computing, Helsinki, Finland, August 2017

Member of the Organizing Committees

• Laurent Lefèvre was

  • co-organizer of the GreenDays@Sophia, SophiaTech, Nice, June 2017

  • co organizer of the Ecoinfo conference on "Edge Datacenters, a leverage for innovation - Edge datacenters, un levier pour l'innovation", Paris, March 2017 and the Ecoinfo conference on "Eco-design of software", Grenoble, February 2017

  • co-chair of the Special Session on Energy Efficient Management of Parallel Systems, Platforms, and Computations during PDP2017 : 25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network based Processing, St Petersburg, Russia, March 2017

• Christian Perez served on the Organizing Committee of the 2017 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) as Conference Awards and Recognitions Co-Chair.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

• Eddy Caron was the chair of the Chair Parallelism for Compas'2017 (Conférence d’informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système). June 27-30, 2017.

• Laurent Lefèvre was co-chair of the Poster and Research Demos of CCGrid 2017 : 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, Madrid, Spain, May 2017

Member of the Conference Program Committees

• Eddy Caron was member of the program committees of 6^th International Conference on Advances in Computing, Commnications and Informatics (ICACCI-2017), Conférence Nationale (en Afrique) sur la Recherche en Informatique et ses Applications (CNRIA 2017), The 3rd International Conference on Cloud Computing Technologies and Applications (CloudTech'17), 7^th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Service Science (CLOSER 2017), Third Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications (SETCAC'17), The 10^th International Conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2017).

• Marcos Dias de Assunção was member of the program committees of the International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017) and Workshop on Clouds and Applications (WCGA 2017).

• Olivier Glück was a member of the program committees of PDP 2017 (25th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing) and ICA3PP-2017 (17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing).

• Laurent Lefèvre was member of the program committees of The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2017), The 23nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2017), 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2017), International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBACPAD 2017), 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP2017) and the Conférence d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas'17).

• Christian Perez was member of the program committees of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing 2017 (Cluster 2017), the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid (CCGRID 2017), the 25th annual High Performance Computing Symposium 2017 (HPC '17), the 9th International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (IEEE CloudCom 2017) and of the 2017 International Conference on Parallel Computing (ParCo 2017). He was a member of the Tutorials Committee of ISC High Performance 2018.

• Frédéric Suter was member of the program committees of the European MPI Users' Group Meeting (EuroMPI'17), the International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP'17), the IEEE / ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2017), the International Workshop on Algorithms, Models and Tools for Parallel Computing on Heteroge- neous Platforms (HeteroPar'17), and the Conférence d'informatique en Parallélisme, Architecture et Système (Compas'17). He was a member of the Posters Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster'17).

Reviewer

• Eddy Caron reviewed a paper for the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2017).

• Christian Perez reviewed a paper for the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2017).

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

• Laurent Lefèvre is associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

• Eddy Caron reviewed articles for Journal of Cloud Computing, Journal FGCS, Transaction on Service Computing, Concurrency and Computation (Practice and Experience), Information Security Journal: A Global Perspective.

• Marcos Dias de Assunção reviewed articles for the ACM Computing Surveys, Computer Networks, IEEE Cloud Computing, Software Practice and Experience, Sustainable Computing Journal, Parallel Computing, Cluster Computing Journal, Future Generation Computer Systems Journal (FGCS), Transactions on Cloud Computing, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management.

• Thierry Gautier reviewed articles for the ACM Transactions on Architecture and Code Optimization journal.

• Christian Perez reviewed articles for the IEEE's Transactions on Big Data journal.

• Frédéric Suter reviewed articles for the IEEE's Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems and ParallelComputing.

Invited Talks

• Marcos Dias de Assunção gave the following talk:

  • “Challenges on Resource Elasticity”, University of Umea, Sweden, March 29, 2017.

• Laurent Lefèvre has been invited to give the following talk:

  • "L'impact environnemental des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication / Environmental impact of ICT", Ville de Vincennes : "Au coeur des savoirs", Vincennes, March 2017

  • "Améliorer l'efficacité énergétique de l'informatique et des réseaux de communications / Improving energy efficiency of computing and networking", Assemblée Nationale, Audition publique sur les enjeux de la recherche en énergie, Office Parlementaire d'Evaluation des Choix Scientifiques et Technologiques (OPECST), Paris, February 2017

  • "Eco-design of software : conclusion of the day - Eco-conception logicielle : conclusion de la journée", Journée EcoInfo sur "Impact des logiciels sur l'environnement quid de l'éco-conception ?", IMAG, Grenoble, February 2017

  • "Impacts environnementaux des TICs : constats et pistes d'améliorations (sans green washing) / Environmental impact of ICT : overview and improvements (without green washing)", ENSIMAG, Grenoble, January 2017

• Christian Perez has been invited to give the following talk:

  • "HPC Component Models", 2017 JLESC Summer School, NCSA, Urbana, Illinois, July 21, 2017.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

• Eddy Caron is animator and co-chair for the FIL (Fédération Informatique de Lyon) on the theme IDCHP (Informatique Distribuée et Calcul Haute Performance).

• Laurent Lefèvre is animator and chair of the transversal action on "Energy" of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués")

• Christian Perez is co-leader of the pole Distributed Systems of the French GDR RSD ("Réseaux et Systèmes Distribués").

Scientific Expertise

• Eddy Caron reviewed 3 projects for the French National Research Agency (ANR).

• Thierry Gautier and Christian Perez were member of the programming environment working group of ETP4HPC in order to define the Strategic Research Agenda (SRA). The SRA identifies the principal challenges in HPC and is used by the European Commission for writing their work programme. The EC is currently working on the WP2018-2020. The SRA -3 was released in November 2017.

• Olivier Glück is member of the CNU (Conseil National des Universités) section 27 (Computer Science). He participated to the 2017 "Qualifications" session and "Promotions/CRCT" session.

• Christian Perez was a member of the HCERES evaluation committes fot the Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale d'Orléans (LIFO) and for the Mathématiques et Systèmes unit of Mines ParisTech. He reviewed projects for the French National Research Agency (ANR), for the Comité Français d'Évaluation de la Coopération Scientifique et Universitaire avec le Brésil (COFECUB), and for the Région Pays de la Loire (France).

Research Administration

• Eddy Caron is a member of the CDT (Commission de Développement Technologique) de l'Inria Rhône-Alpes. He is deputy director in charge of call for projects, research transfert and international affairs since September 2017 for the LIP laboratory.

• Olivier Glück is member of the "Conseil Académique" of Lyon 1 University and Lyon University.

• Laurent Lefèvre is a member of the executive board and the sites committee of the Grid'5000 Scientific Interest Group. Laurent Lefèvre leads the PhD commitee and is member of the councill of LIP Laboratory (ENS Lyon). He is elected memeber of the council of Federation Informatique of Lyon. He is a scientific member of the Digital League enterprise cluster of Rhône-Alpes Auvergne Region. He is member of the direction committee of the GDS Ecoinfo group.

• Christian Perez represents Inria in the overview board of the France Grilles Scientific Interest Group. He is a member of the executive board and the sites committee of the Grid'5000 Scientific Interest Group. He a member of the committee selection of the project call from the Rhône-Alpes region ARC6 (France). He is also a member of the Inria Grenoble Rhône-Alpes Strategic Orientation Committee.

• Frédéric Suter is a member of the Direction Committee of the IN2P3 Computing Center (USR 6402).