Section: Dissemination

Promoting Scientific Activities

Scientific Events Organisation

General Chair, Scientific Chair

Luc Bougé:

Chair of the Steering Committee of the Euro-Par Series of conferences since August 2017.

Scientific Events Selection

Chair of Conference Program Committees

Gabriel Antoniu:

• Program Chair of the IEEE Cluster 2017 international conference.

• Vice-Chair of the Program Committee of the ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2017 international conference (Hybrid and Mobile Clouds Area), Madrid, May 2017.

Alexandru Costan:

• Program Co-Chair of the ScienceCloud 2017 international workshop held in conjunction with HPDC 2017, Washington, USA.

• Posters Chair of the IEEE Big Data 2017.

• Submissions Chair of the IEEE Cluster 2017.

• Track Chair of the IEEE ScalCom 2017 (Tools for Big Data track)

Member of Conference Program Committees

Gabriel Antoniu:

IEEE/ACM SC'17 (Papers), ACM HPDC 2017.

Luc Bougé:

ISC HPC 2017.

Alexandru Costan:

IEEE/ACM SC'17 (Posters), ACM/IEEE CCGrid 2017, IEEE/ACM UCC 2017, ARMS-CC 2017 workshop (held in conjunction with PODC 2016), IEEE Big Data 2017, MLDS 2017, EBDMA 2017, ISPDC 2017, CSCS 2017.

Reviewer

Luc Bougé:

ISC 2017, SC 2017, BigData 2017, IPDPS 2017, etc.

Alexandru Costan:

HPDC 2017, SC 2017, IPDPS 2017

Journal

Member of the Editorial Boards

Gabriel Antoniu:

Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Mobile, hybrid, and heterogeneous clouds for cyberinfrastructures (Guest Editor, 2017).

Luc Bougé:

Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Special Issues on the Euro-Par conference.

Alexandru Costan:

Soft Computing Journal, Special Issue on Autonomic Computing and Big Data Platforms

Reviewer - Reviewing Activities

Gabriel Antoniu:

Concurency and Computation: Practice and Experience.

Luc Bougé:

IEEE Transactions on Distributed Parallel Systems.

Alexandru Costan:

IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, Future Generation Computer Systems, Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience, IEEE Communications, IEEE Transactions on Storage, Information Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Big Data.

Chi Zhou:

IEEE Transactions on Big Data, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing and ACM TAAS.

Keynote Talks and Invited Talks

Gabriel Antoniu:

BigStorage and WALL ITN Joint Meeting:

Týr: Storage-based Convergence Between HPC and Big Data, Mainz, January 2017.

Huawei Seminar:

Convergence of HPC and Big Data, Huawei European Research Center, Munich, October 2017.

Luc Bougé:

Dagstuhl School on Challenges and Opportunities of User-Level File Systems for HPC:

Are objects the right level of abstraction to enable the convergence between HPC and Big Data at storage level?, joint talk with María Pérez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (slides).

ENS Rennes:

Map-Reduce: Very-Large Scale Programming for Big Data on Clouds, November 2017.

Alexandru Costan:

Huawei Seminar:

Low-Latency Stream Storage, Huawei Research Munich, October 2017.

BigStorage Summer School:

Making Cities Smarter: A Storage-based View on Stream Processing Engines, Heraklion, July 2017.

UPB Scientific Days:

Science Driven, Scalable Data-Intensive Processing on Clouds, University Politehnica of Bucharest, June 2017.

Leadership within the Scientific Community

Gabriel Antoniu:

• Scientific leader of the KerData project-team.

• Topic leader for Inria for the Data storage, I/O and in situ processing topic, supervising collaboration activities in this area within the JLESC, Joint Inria-Illinois-ANL-BSC-JSC-RIKEN/AICS Laboratory for Extreme-Scale Computing.

• Co-leader the BDEC working group dedicated to exploring convergence-related challenges for hybrid architectures combining HPC systems, clouds and fog/edge computing infrastructures with Geoffrey Fox and Ewa Deelman.

• Work package leader within the BigStorage H2020 ETN project for the Data Science work package.

Luc Bougé:

Vice-President of the French Society for Informatics (SIF), in charge of the Teaching department.

Alexandru Costan:

Leader of the Smart Cities Working Group within the BigStorage H2020 ETN project.

Scientific Expertise

Gabriel Antoniu

served as a project evaluator for the project proposals submitted within the Activity "Post-doctoral Research Support" provided from the European Regional Development Fund to the The State Education Development Agency (SEDA) of the Republic of Latvia.

Luc Bougé:

Member of the jury for the Agrégation de mathématiques and the CAPES of mathématiques. These national committees select permanent mathematics teachers for secondary schools and high-schools, respectively.

Research Administration

Gabriel Antoniu:

Vice Executive Director of JLESC, Joint Inria-Illinois-ANL-BSC-JSC-RIKEN/AICS Laboratory for Extreme-Scale Computing for Inria.